Many travelers are critical of Trump, who has said he had to act because the EU failed to take adequate measures to stop the coronavirus
Travelers at the Delta Air Lines service desk at Charles de Gaulle Airport in France on Thursday, March 12 2020. Picture: BLOOMBERG/CHRISTOPHE MORIN
“It caused a mass panic,” said Anna Grace, a US student on her first trip to Europe, who changed her booking to fly home from Madrid’s Barajas airport instead of going on to France. Cristina Elvira, a pensioner travelling to Miami, felt relieved to leave Spain, where new cases have increased exponentially over the past days. “We are lucky to be able to leave Europe,” she said as she checked in for her flight, one of about 20 from Spain to the US scheduled for Thursday.
Trump has said he had to act because the EU had failed to take adequate measures to stop the coronavirus. The EU dismissed his comments and criticised the lack of consultation from the US side. A Delta crew member, who asked not to be named, said Trump’s travel ban had caught the airline off-guard. “It’s going to be a big mess ... We were not expecting something like this. We don’t have all the details to know what it means for us and for the company.”
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