Taiwan offers fake flights, complete with itinerary and passport control

An airport organised a fake travel experience event in Taipei, Taiwan recently. — Reuters

Starved of the travel experience during the coronavirus lockdown? One Taiwanese airport has the solution – a fake itinerary where you check in, go through passport control and security and even board the aircraft. You just never leave.

Taipei’s downtown Songshan airport has begun offering travellers the chance to do just that, with some 60 people eager to get going, albeit to nowhere.