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Collected Item: “Cancelled Flights”

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Cancelled Flights

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Photograph (self-taken)

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This was a photo I took of the flight departures board at Heathrow Airport on the 18th March, as I waited for my flight home to Melbourne, Australia. It shows a crazy number of flights being cancelled, most of them, from what I could gather, with very little notice to the passengers.

This photo sums up just how chaotic and stressful it was trying to get home during COVID border closures. Things were changing so rapidly that your flight could quite literally get cancelled at the last minute, and I remember worrying that my flight would as well.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#airports, #flights, #borders, #travel, #abroad, #chaos, #stress, #confusion, #cancelled

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Dan Crowley

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2020-03-18
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