the travel company TUI and the Danish embassy in Mexico in collaboration scored 19 danes home from Latin america.
19 the danes, who were apparently stranded in Cuba, Honduras and Mexico, on Sunday morning landed in Stockholm and have now headed for Denmark on your own.
It informs the travel company TUI, which has collaborated with the Ministry of foreign affairs to get the danes back home.
Danish embassies around the world are trying in these weeks to get the danes home in spite of restrictions on travel and closed borders.
In this case approached the Ministry of foreign affairs to the travel company TUI with a desire to get the 19 persons home.
At TUI have also an airline, and there was an empty aircraft on the way to Cancun, Mexico. Here it should pick up some of the rejseselskabets Swedish customers and fly them home.
There could, however, good room for the 19 danes, despite the fact that they were not customers of the travel company.
in turn, had the Ministry of foreign affairs stand to get the downloaded the 19 danes at their respective resorts and get them delivered to the airport in Cancun.
– It’s great when a collaboration like this to bear fruit, says Mikkel Hansen, who is head of communications at TUI in Denmark and have been in direct contact with the Danish embassy in Mexico.
– Much of it here has been done manually, and we are pleased to be able to contribute with our help.
He praises the Danish embassy’s staff for their work.
It is not the first time that TUI and the Danish embassy is able to get Danish nationals home from Latin america.
last week, the Danish embassy luck to get five danes out of the Dominican Republic – also with a TUI-fly.
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