Sydney's international airport came alive with tears, embraces and laughter on Monday as Australia's border opened for the first time in 20 months, with some arriving travelers tearing away mandatory masks to see faces of loved ones they've been separated from for so long.
“Just being able to come home without having to go to quarantine is huge,” arriving passenger Carly Boyd told reporters at Sydney's Kingsford-Smith Airport, where Peter Allen's unofficial national anthem “I Still Call Australia Home” was playing.
Before the pandemic, Sydney was Australia's busiest international airport but until Monday had been almost deserted. Sydney had 16 scheduled inbound international flights on Monday and 14 outbound. Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, had five scheduled in and five out. Canberra had none. An Australian who lives in San Francisco, who identified himself only as Jeremy, said he had been trying to fly back to Sydney with his wife and baby daughter since July. They had been prevented at short notice four times from flying, twice because flights were delayed and twice because quarantine caps had been reduced in response to the the COVID-19 delta variant taking hold in Sydney in June.
Some of Australia's 1.6 million temporary residents feel left out of Australia's reopening plan and unsure of their travel status. “It will come back quickly for those people who really want to travel. Initially. it's the friends and relatives. People who haven't seen each other for a long time,” Turner said.
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