Tourist Is Stranded At Manila Airport For More Than 100 Days
A tourist is pleading to be rescued after spending more than 100 days living in a Philippine airport during the [/news/coronavirus/index.html coronavirus] crisis.
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He was denied entry to the country after the Philippines suspended entry visas because of the virus pandemic, but he could not get out either because AirAsia cancelled its entire schedule and there are no flights back to his home in Estonia.
His ordeal echoes the 2004 film The Terminal in which Tom Hanks plays an Eastern European tourist left stranded in JFK Airport after a coup in his home country.
The film was loosely based on the true story of Iranian refugee Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived in limbo at Paris's Charles de Gaulle Airport from 1988 to 2006.
Stranded: Roman Tromifov (pictured) has been stuck in the departures hall of Manila International Airport since he arrived from Bangkok on March 20
Roman Trofimov's case has echoes of the 2004 film The Terminal, in which Tom Hanks (pictured) plays a tourist who gets stuck at JFK Airport in New York
Trofimov took an AirAsia flight from Bangkok to Manila on March 20, just as the world was becoming engulfed by the pandemic.
The Eastern European tourist had been travelling in south-east Asia but his schedule was thrown into chaos when the Philippines shut its borders.
When he arrived in Manila he was told that the Philippines was no longer issuing tourist visas, meaning he was unable to enter the country.
He had an onward flight to Cebu province booked for the same day on March 20 and a return flight to Bangkok for Ilocos Sur April 2, but both were cancelled.
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