A man walks past the Air France counter at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York AFP/Kena BetancurNEW YORK: New Yorker John Eckard, 66, was sleeping soundly at his son's home near Frankfurt, Germany, when he was startled by a 3.00am call from his wife saying he"had to fly back now."
Travellers who had hurried to leave Europe before the travel ban is implemented on Friday braced themselves for chaos at New York's JFK but on their arrival found the airport calmly serene.Eckard said he was"very sad" to be cutting short his visit to see his grandson, but was concerned that Trump's month-long measure to combat the coronavirus spread would be extended.
"On the plane, there were rumors that we would be swabbed and have our temperatures taken when we landed but it's quiet. I was expecting to turn up at a mad house," added the semi-retired deli store manager.Peter Stults, a 37-year-old graphic designer from New York, was on the same flight as Eckard. Newly-arrived German tourists Niklas Schliesmeier, 25, and Sabrina Schwichtenberg, 23, were determined not to let any travel restrictions ruin a week's holiday in the Big Apple."When we saw that they weren't cancelled we're like, let's try to go there and until we came out from immigration we were still not 100 percent sure that we would be allowed to enter," said Schliesmeier.They may not be able to do everything they had hoped to do, however.
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