covid-19

Thinking of taking route that will require us to layover in HKG. I see that their COVID requirements are really strict. Has anyone had any recent experience doing a layover in HKG? Do we just need have a vaccination record, pre-travel negative test and the RAT & PCR test on arrival?

Mystery pneumonia: Argentina investigates three deaths BBC 2 September 2022 A third person has died this week in Argentina from an unexplained type of pneumonia that has affected nine people in total so far. All of the cases centre around a private medical clinic in northwestern Tucuman...

Hi guys. I'm going to the USA in November with my kids who are 6 and 4. We are all vaccinated except for the youngest who can't be vaccinated yet as it's not approved for her age group yet. The requirements state that under 18 are exempt but further down the page it says that you can be...

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Good news recently out of Singapore, as reported via all the usual channels up there, and in this piece from Executive Traveller: Singapore to end mask-wearing mandate Taken from a Straits Times article on the same subject, he added: Cheers, Matt.

Just flew ZRH-YVR on AC yesterday and I thought I'd mention the Covid safety precautions on board. Masks had to be worn, properly fitted, at all time - if not you were sternly reminded by crew. Crew wore full PPE while serving meals/drinks. You were allowed to remove your mask while eating but...

My girlfriend flies out of MEL tomorrow on TG466 at 1000hrs She’s going business She wants me to drive her to the airport so she arrives 4 hours early because she’s heard all about these delays with security etc. Am I correct in saying this is overkill? Anyone travelled recently and got a good...

Just tried to make booking on both Rex and on Virgin, after calling Rex I can confirm that their online payment portal is totally down so tried to book on VA, looks like they cannot accept credit card payments either so possibly a more widespread systematic Telco or bank/server problem? Have...

What's the latest on mask mandates folks? I'm doing PER xADL to MEL thursday and am not up to speed on the current impositions. Thanks

Friend's work sent him from Syd to Bos at short notice....not many options available but got a fare on Delta at $17.5K for J return from Sydney!! Coming back his Bos-Lax flight got cancelled so would miss the Lax-Syd leg...next flight was in 3 days but his work wanted him back in Sydney...

Suggestions re: travel insurance, 'covering Covid' please? I have Citibank credit card ins that covers everything else and am going on an Antartica cruise. Concerned about confinement to cabin and all that money down the drain and/or canx if (please no🙏) I have it prior.

Mum is 77 and is in excellent health. Now the world has opened up she's like to do a couple of trips to visit relatives in the US and UK. For a 3 week trip to the US Covermore quoted around $1500. Any suggestions for other companies to try? I think TID don't cover 75+.

Couldn't get heading to work but I can here - Where have all the flowers WORKERS gone? Post Covid that is. No International backpackers? No International students? Long Covid sufferers? Those just realising more to life than work? Other reasons? It's not only Australia - it is world wide - I...

A friend is currently in the Qld 7 day isolation period and after 3 days is asymptomatic. Their isolation period ends on Wednesday. They are booked to depart on an EK flight to Dubai the next day. From what we read on the EK website and dubai entry, they meet the Vaccination criteria and are...

Has anyone had any luck registering their Australian Gov issued International Vaccine certificate within the Malaysian MySafe Travel site. Every time I try to upload the certificate QR code and verify there is a discrepancy with the name. I've tried matching the certificate Surname, Firstname...

Traveling through these airports for international flights over the next three weeks, any of you lovely travelers been at their airports recently? How was the experience, particularly in regards to time. TIA Aussie passport traveller. Andrew

In the last two weeks I have had to contact Qantas on three occasions regarding separate issues with an upcoming return trip to NZ. The calls were 6 to 7 days apart and made between 0800 and 1000 AEST. After the standard pre-recorded prompts and messages I was , on each occasion , connected to...

Hi all, Im travelling QF2 later this week - London-Sydney with a 2hr stop in Singapore. Although they are technically 2 flights, they come under 1 flight number, therefore, I put London-Sydney in my DPD as one flight. Is this the right thing to do? Do I need to mention Singapore at any point...

NAB has sent an email advising that from 30 June 2022, cover for some COVID-19 instances will be included as part of existing 'free' credit card travel insurance. However it has yet to update the policy available online, as it's dated 31 March 2021. Today's email suggests referring to Part D...

Travellers to the United States will no longer need a pre-departure COVID-19 test within one calendar day before departure with the US government scrapping this requirements as of midnight on 12 June 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/us/politics/us-testing-travel-mandate-covid.html