On a Wing and a Dare
Planes are flying again, but are passengers?
© Joyce McGreevy
An Air Traveler’s Diary in the Pandemic
I love flying. As a pilot’s daughter, I’ve always felt at home in the sky. But airline travel in a pandemic? Opening my travel diary, I scrawl something I’ve never felt before: I dread the airport.
Ballyshane, Ireland
When the world went into lockdown, I was pet-sitting in Ireland. I had a guest cottage, the solitude writers crave, and nature’s beauty. Who’d leave that to fly on a wing and a dare?
But I missed my family, which had grown by three since I’d left the U.S.
It was time to return.
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Before COVID-19, planning travel between countries was as easy as when Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz clicked her ruby-shod heels together. A few taps on an app and you were good to go.
But as travel restrictions spread globally, the number of flights...
