Stranded Britons stuck thousands of miles from home because of the coronavirus pandemic face having to pay £40,000 to fly back.
One couple, from Norwich, have slammed the Foreign Office, who they claim has failed to support them as they struggle to get back from New Zealand, which is also under lockdown.
Marine engineer Tim Johnson, 30, says the only available flights to the UK for him and his wife Nikki, are priced highly with even the cheaper tickets costing as much as £15,000.
A Qatari Airlines flight from Auckland to London on March 31 was priced at NZ$83,534 (£40,096), he told The Observer. He said: “The cost of the flights has been far out of reach of the people stranded.