{"id":116603,"date":"2021-08-20T12:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=116603"},"modified":"2021-08-20T12:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T16:21:39","slug":"americans-evacuating-afghanistan-are-expected-to-pay-up-to-2000-for-their-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=116603","title":{"rendered":"Americans evacuating Afghanistan are expected to pay up to $2000 for their flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_116604\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116604\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=116604\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-116604 noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-116604 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Americans-expected-to-pay-up-to-2000-for-their-evacuation-flight-500x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Americans-expected-to-pay-up-to-2000-for-their-evacuation-flight-500x169.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Americans-expected-to-pay-up-to-2000-for-their-evacuation-flight-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Americans-expected-to-pay-up-to-2000-for-their-evacuation-flight-768x260.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Americans-expected-to-pay-up-to-2000-for-their-evacuation-flight.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116604\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Americans evacuating from Afghanistan are expected to pay up to $2000 for their evacuation flight. (John Cooper @thejcoop)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although the State Department previously announced that evacuation flights out of Afghanistan will be free for Americans, the situation on the ground is different. American evacuees have stated that they were charged up to $2000 to board a flight. Each adult could expect to sign a promissory note to pay the full cost of the flight. Those who do not have money for the flights can sign up for a loan using their passport as a collateral.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From The Daily Wire:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has stated in multiple security advisories since Monday that any U.S. citizen seeking to evacuate the country must complete an online form in order to secure their repatriation flight. &#8220;This form is the only way to communicate interest in flight options,&#8221; the embassy said in a security advisory Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>State Department spokesman Ned Price told the Daily Caller News Foundation and other news outlets late Thursday afternoon that the Biden administration has &#8220;no intention of seeking any reimbursement from those fleeing Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>the online form American citizens are directed to fill out to secure their evacuation from Afghanistan continued to state well into Thursday evening that they (<em>sic<\/em>) travelers will have to pay their own way out of the country.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>&#8220;Repatriation flights are not free,&#8221; Question 14 of the form stated when accessed by the DCNF around 10 p.m. Thursday, over two-and-a-half hours after Price issued his statement.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Daily Wire has the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/19\/biden-continues-charging-fleeing-americans-afghanistan\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the State Department previously announced that evacuation flights out of Afghanistan will be free for &hellip; <a title=\"Americans evacuating Afghanistan are expected to pay up to $2000 for their flight\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=116603\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Americans evacuating Afghanistan are expected to pay up to $2000 for their flight<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,220,301,518],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-afghanistan","category-biden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116605,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116603\/revisions\/116605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}