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Speaker 1: But joining me right now, I believe out at the

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Speaker 1: airport is Sky News correspondent for the Northern Territory, Matt Cunningham.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Matt. Hello, are you out at the airport mate?

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Speaker 1: Just waiting for the plane to arrive?

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Speaker 2: I am on. I'm just out on am Johnson Avenue

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Speaker 2: in London the runway where the plane flies, just waiting

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Speaker 2: for those plane spotts to arrive.

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Speaker 1: But I'm sure no doubt about it. And what time

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Speaker 1: exactly are we expecting that plane?

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Speaker 2: Around about eleven forty nine the last estament I thought.

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Speaker 2: The plane we got from London last night. It's about

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Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy people who are on board that

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Speaker 2: plane on the.

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Speaker 3: Group creations that we're going to see come from the UK,

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Speaker 3: India and South Africa here to the top end. So

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Speaker 3: just before lunchtime they are expecting this plane to arrive

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Speaker 3: basically that they selected them. Much people come on this

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Speaker 3: particular flight. So several people and babies apparently are on

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Speaker 3: the quartet flight to heading to Darland, so it might

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Speaker 3: be a bit of a walker strip the people who

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Speaker 3: are on board. I know, whether you've ever find a baby,

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Speaker 3: it's an experience, not just you but pretty much everyone

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Speaker 3: around you.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna's say, mate. One of the worst flights I've

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Speaker 1: ever been on was when my daughter was about fourteen

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Speaker 1: months old, and it culminated with us both crying under

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Speaker 1: a blanket.

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Speaker 3: When down from Melbourne in very early twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 2: My youngest daughter was about fourteen months at the top

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Speaker 2: all of the time, and I spent a whole entire.

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Speaker 3: Four and a half hour pacing up and.

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Speaker 2: Down the aisle of the plane that are doing it

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Speaker 2: up and down in my arm.

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Speaker 1: I think, goodness mate, it sounds like it's going to

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Speaker 1: be an interesting flight for the Aussie expats. But I

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Speaker 1: suppose they're all going to be so happy to get

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Speaker 1: back onto Aussie soil that that you know, it won't

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Speaker 1: matter too much.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's right.

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Speaker 2: I mean these peason we're basically seen stranded in many

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Speaker 2: cases for more than six months.

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Speaker 3: Of course, you know, the international boarders.

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Speaker 2: Have been closed and saying are almost impossible for a

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Speaker 2: lot of these seasons to get a commercial flight back

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Speaker 2: to their home state to state to put cups from

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Speaker 2: the number of people who's been allowing him because of restrictions.

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Speaker 2: When it comes to the hotel quarantine that means that

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Speaker 2: the people who have been flying back have been paying

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Speaker 2: huge amounts of money to get on those planes. That

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Speaker 2: often those flights have been canceled. So in this case,

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Speaker 2: these people are paying two thousand dollars, which now seems

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Speaker 2: relatively cheap I think for this flight from the UK

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Speaker 2: back in year to day, and and then of course

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Speaker 2: I'll have to stump up another two and a half

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars to their two weeks in quarantine and how

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Speaker 2: it brings. But I think a lot of these people

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Speaker 2: are rather costly secondary. I think there are a lot

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Speaker 2: of people here who've been desperate to get home for

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Speaker 2: a long time. And I'll be glad when that plane

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Speaker 2: does cut down later this morning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, And Matt, we have learned a little bit

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Speaker 1: more detail as well about those arm bands and things

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Speaker 1: that that these expats are going to be wearing, obviously

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Speaker 1: to keep an eye on them ensure that they do

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Speaker 1: not have COVID, but also to keep the wider community safe.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, and from the National Critical Care and

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Speaker 2: Trauma Response that were showing these off yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Goes on your arm and basically we can monitor all

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Speaker 3: sorts of wine, not just the temperature, so they get

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Speaker 3: an idea pretty much straight away if someone coming down

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Speaker 3: with any temperature or any symptoms of the coronavirus. So

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Speaker 3: it's pretty amazing and obviously those people will have those

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Speaker 3: on out how it's and so you know that's great.

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Speaker 3: Over NAT team will be able to really keep on

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Speaker 3: properties straight away. People who are arriving from overseas again

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Speaker 3: to be separate at strings walking from the interstrative rivals

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Speaker 3: has been coming more over the past few months. About

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Speaker 3: five hundred deads have been set aside in a shifted

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Speaker 3: section of that.

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Speaker 2: Facility, all of these people who are being patch repatriated

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Speaker 2: from overseas, but they really held in a separate, separate

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Speaker 2: part at Howard Springs.

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Speaker 3: To the people we've.

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Speaker 2: Seen coming timing to stay and we had to an

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Speaker 2: incredible number of those people coming from interstate quarantine.

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Speaker 3: We are eble to come.

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Speaker 2: Through the territory or as a route as you know,

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Speaker 2: wle come to the UNC because they want to go

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Speaker 2: to places like queen So a lot of people coming

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Speaker 2: from New South Wales to the UNC to get to

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Speaker 2: Queensland seems ridiculous, doesn't order it close between New South

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Speaker 2: Wales and Queensland, although they have had an election there

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Speaker 2: next week and I reckon I might have a bit.

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Speaker 3: To do with it.

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Speaker 1: I reckon it will as well well. Matt Cunningham. Always

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Speaker 1: good to catch up with you mate. You're missed a

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Speaker 1: pretty wild and exciting week that was this morning.

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Speaker 3: Sorry I wasn't there.

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Speaker 2: I guess I was a little bit out there that

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have.

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Speaker 3: Got a word in.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, A good time we did, Matt Cunningham, always good

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Speaker 1: to catch up. We'll talk to you again next week,

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Speaker 1: no doubt. Thank you. That is Matt Cunningham there. From

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Speaker 1: Sky News