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#2920555 30-May-2022 18:45

I am about to fly back to NZ tomorrow from the US, RAT test available at LAX and upload to travel declaration once you have it, and then you get a QR code to give to check in

I will update my experience in another post

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#2920629 30-May-2022 20:37

Beccara:

Hmm this is going to be interesting then, We'll be coming back thru in early July but have just recovered so I suspect a PCR is going to pick us up as positive still

I looked into this because I feared being in a similar spot.

NZ accepts a doctors cert that you are no longer contagious if you throw a positve. Obviously very helpful to have a documented test result of your historic infection so you can prove your historic infection to your doctor. Could be quite a challenge to the doctors appointment especially if flying on the weekend.

https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-information-specific-audiences/covid-19-travellers#positive

I tried to get a positive documented PCR test a few days after i recovered for this purpose (and when my child started getting sick) - Was quite surprised that my PRC came back negitive, so you could well be fine.

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#2920668 31-May-2022 02:03

martyyn:
The requirements for our son to enter Sweden changed multiple times in the days before his flight, so keep up to date as much as you can. The initial restrictions meant he could only fly into Stockholm rather than directly into Gothenberg which added another 6/7 hours to the journey.

Another bit of advice, fill out every imaginable online form before you leave, even the ones where they tell you you don't need to do this one. Talked to someone else earlier and they'd been caught not filling out a form they were told they didn't need but someone at the other end decided they needed anyway.

This may be one possible explanation why I wasn't asked for my vax status, I filled out an online form as part of the pile of NZ departure stuff, even though the site said it wasn't required, with vax info.

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#2920670 31-May-2022 03:02

Went with Emirates to Norway via Kuala Lumpur and Dubai in the middle of May. Mask requirement on flight but saw several that just ignored masking completely and even the flight attendants were not all that great with masking all the time.

Transit in Kuala Lumpur was great - got to stay on the plane while they were refueling.

Got through without getting Covid, but has gotten it from a family member now. So will have to go to a GP to get a certificate that we are free of covid before going back.

In Norway there are no requirements now. So no need for any tests and everyone took their masks off as soon as they were outside of the plane.

The most surreal experience during the travel was when in Dubai. A guy came walking along with his mask on, then takes the mask off and sneezes, and then puts the mask back on again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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#2920671 31-May-2022 03:20

Just watching the animation of our flight path which I a a straight line along the southern coast of Ukraine between Russia and Crimea.

I'm hoping its just old map plotting software...

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#2920678 31-May-2022 07:04

Mask wearing on my DFW-SFO flight this morning was about 50%.

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#2920999 31-May-2022 15:54

Just checked in at LAX, did my covid test here just before checking in and uploaded to my travel declaration, It had to be reviewed manually which took another half hour due to US date format mm/dd/yy on my pre departure trat

Once I got the travel declension QR code check in was a smooth painless process (like pre covid times)

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#2922084 3-Jun-2022 08:40

neb: Just watching the animation of our flight path which I a a straight line along the southern coast of Ukraine between Russia and Crimea.

I'm hoping its just old map plotting software...

When they gave a flight time of 12 1/2 hours rather than the usual 11-and-a-bit I figured we were in for quite a detour, the flight veered south over Iran and then flew along the coast of Turkey before cutting across to Bulgaria, so definitely staying well inside the territory of other countries and with the full width of the Black Sea, 200-300km, between us and any combat areas.

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#2922087 3-Jun-2022 08:50

The second leg was on Swiss Air, which has no mask requirements or anything else. About a third of the passengers were unmasked, as was all of the crew. At the airport, absolutely no-one was wearing a mask. Switching to Austrian, everyone dutifully put on masks just before they boarded after clustering maskless by the departure gate and and in the airbridge.

The behaviour is very different to NZ, in NZ people seem to wear masks when it makes sense to do so while here people wear them only when they're required to. For example Vienna, which has always been more socially aware than the rest of Austria still has mask requirements on public transport and a few other places, although most of the restrictions were lifted yesterday. So when coming in from other parts of Austria there's an announcement that you need to wear masks and everyone, who has been sitting there unmasked until now, dutifully puts on their mask, a completely pointless gesture.

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#2922090 3-Jun-2022 08:59

did i read NZ are dropping pre flight testing coming into NZ?

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#2922092 3-Jun-2022 09:01

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did i read NZ are dropping pre flight testing coming into NZ?

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#2922094 3-Jun-2022 09:06

Batman:

did i read NZ are dropping pre flight testing coming into NZ?

Last I read it will be dropped at the end of July.

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#2922116 3-Jun-2022 09:36

Batman:

did i read NZ are dropping pre flight testing coming into NZ?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/300591370/predeparture-covid-test-rule-to-be-removed-soon-as-government-plans-for-new-normal

"The Government had already announced that pre-departure tests would no longer be required from August, but Hipkins said he was “in the process of making a decision” about ending the requirement sooner."

The article is dated 18 May. Haven't heard anything since.

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#2922844 5-Jun-2022 10:27

And a postscript from me: as seems to be routine with NZG IT projects - they look good but don’t work very well. Tried to upload airport test results but the web site does not work with Edge on iPhone. I remember that the COVID tracing up didn’t work properly on iPhone either.

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#2923229 6-Jun-2022 13:53

Consider ordering a special meal so that it is served before everyone else. You may be able to finish eating and have your mask back on before your neighbours get their meals.

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