What conditions do you need to pay for the return flight of the epidemic charter?

At present, the spread of COVID-19 epidemic abroad is very serious, and the number of confirmed cases in the United States, Britain, Spain and other countries is increasing. Because of this, many international students want to return to China. However, due to the sharp drop or even cancellation of international flights between countries, they can only take charter flights to return home. Many people ask what requirements charter flights need to meet and who will bear the cost.

20 10-20 10 on April 6, the China embassy and consulate in the United States issued a notice on finding out the willingness of temporary charter flights, saying that minor students will be arranged to return to China by temporary flights and charter flights according to the age of the applicants, and the round-trip air tickets and isolation fees will be borne by themselves.

Statistics of charter flights returning to China

It is worth mentioning that on April 7, the Embassy of China in the United States announced that four groups were temporarily excluded from the candidates for temporary charter flights. Among them, public students, visiting scholars and diplomats of any embassy or consulate in the United States and their families (whether underage or not) are excluded from the candidates for temporary charter flights.

Who can charter a flight back to China?

In recent years, the trend of younger international students who choose to study in the United States has obviously increased.

According to the report released by SEVP, a subsidiary of the Homeland Security Investigation Project (HSI) of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), about 85,000 non-immigrant students attended the K- 12 course in, and the number of K- 12 students sent by China accounted for about half of the total number of K- 12 non-immigrant students, which means that there are more than 4 in the United States.

According to the statistics of the education department, the total number of overseas students is 6.5438+0.6 million, of which the number of international students in the United States is the largest, about 4.65438+0.6 million. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are currently 6.5438+0.42 million overseas students.

With the outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic in many places around the world, in order to prevent and control the import of overseas epidemic, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has also issued a "five ones" policy, that is, an airline only keeps one flight on one route in a country every week, and the passenger load factor of flights entering and leaving China should be maintained at 75%.

With the reduction of transportation capacity between China and the United States, the "channels" for overseas students to return to China have gradually narrowed. With the change of supply and demand, the price of air tickets has risen and it is hard to get a ticket.

Students studying in the United States

Some time ago, the website of the Chinese Embassy in the UK updated a "Commitment Letter of Responsibility": China students studying in primary and secondary schools in the UK can voluntarily apply for taking temporary commercial flights to return to China due to the COVID-19 epidemic, and the air tickets will be paid by themselves. The letter of commitment says that I or my guardian in Britain need to take my minor children to the designated place at the designated time. If it is not suitable for boarding according to airline regulations, my minor children and I will obey the on-site arrangement. In addition, after minor children return to their destination, they need to strictly abide by the isolation measures of the local government, pay the isolation fee, and pick up their children in time after the isolation procedures are completed.