READ MORE:* Qantas quarantines international flight passengers for hours in Christchurch* Passengers on board quarantined flight were sick from Saudi Arabia* Vanilla Ice describes quarantine of Emirates Flight 203: 'It was chaos'The real-life horror story of flight 203, however, grew less and less dramatic as new information emerged. The following week, passengers on Virgin Australia flight 167 from Melbourne were quarantined at Auckland Airport after reports of people experiencing flu-like symptoms. "Most of these threat assessments are relatively low key and passengers and aircraft are seldom quarantined." STUFF Passengers on Virgin Australia flight 167 from Melbourne were quarantined at Auckland Airport recently. Access to and from a quarantined aircraft is restricted until the threat and best way to manage it is identified, King said.

Source: Stuff October 04, 2018 01:18 UTC