The federal government has announced it will arrange 20 chartered flights to bring Australians stranded overseas home. The decision follows international air carrier Emirates’ move to suspend its flights to Australia’s east coast, frustrating desperate expats. The flights will come from “priority areas” around the world, Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Birmingham said on Saturday. He said the absence of Emirates would not hinder the availability of flights and the newly arranged flights would be on top of the current traveller caps. “The capacity that Emirates was able to use within the cap will be allocated to other airlines ensuring that there are still as many tickets into Australia after Emirates’ decision as there would have been beforehand,” Birmingham said. “There are other carriers here or elsewhere who will be able to bring Australians home using the seats that Emirates would have been able to fill previously.” One new local …