As word of an impending ban on travel to the United States spread in this tourist mecca for Americans — where it was 2 a.m. when President Trump spoke from the Oval Office — panic spread among travelers frantic to return to the United States. It fueled a chaotic scene before the sun had even come up
BARCELONA — Thursday morning in Barcelona’s El Prat airport as hundreds faced five-hour waits in lines to find that tickets home were either unavailable or unaffordable.
Whether coming from Italy — with more than 12,000 cases and lockdowns now imposed countrywide — or from Spain, with more than 3,000 cases, up from 200 cases 10 days ago, or even from Lithuania, which has a mere three cases, foreign nationals, incoming flights, even cargo flights, would not be allowed to enter the U.S., Trump said, emphasizing the ban applied to “goods and cargo … anything coming from Europe to the United States.
“He gave us 48 hours to get back,” said Graydon Scofield-Schwartz, a State University of New York student in Barcelona visiting his girlfriend, who’s been studying abroad. “It was like he designed this to create maximum panic.” “Everything’s confusing — starting with what he meant by midnight on Friday,” she added. Miscommunication abounds, said those who were waiting: Airline employees give information that doesn’t match that on airline sites and doesn’t line up with the unclear policy dictated by Trump. Head of Homeland Security Chad Wolf made an attempt at clarification, saying that U.S. citizens could return later than Friday “through select airports where the U.S.
Jeremy Vidra, who manages food services at Ohio State University, flew in on Tuesday on a half-empty plane from New York and planned to stay a week — but he and his friend hightailed it back to the airport after being informed of a two-hour wait to get through to the airline on the phone. Even after hearing of Wolf’s somewhat more reassuring message, they didn’t want to risk going back after Friday. “We decided we’d better get out now.
In Valencia, authorities announced that the world-renowned festival Las Fallas, when towering effigies are burned all over town, was canceled this year.
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