Wrong. No tests required if u travel to HK. However u need to take one going back toSlightly off topic but not completely, I noticed the hotel prices in HK are dirt cheap in Feb/Mar.
Unfortunately have to do double covid tests (one inbound, one outbound).
They are going to ditch the outdoor masks rule by first quarter of 2023. But masks inside public transport will probably stays.Yes, Hong Kong hotel prices are unusually cheap - do I really want to go somewhere where outdoor masks are compulsory with a HKD10000 fine for violation - in the fourth year of the pandemic?
Wrong. No tests required if u travel to HK. However u need to take one going back to
Australia as required by the Australian government. I took cx last month and no tests required when I landed at hkia and back but that obviously changed as the Australian government imposes the requirement due to spike of covid cases.
There’s no more inbound control upon arriving to HKIA unlike 2 months ago where everyone needs to line up and perform PCR tests on the spot.HK government website clearly states it's required for inbound travel:
COVID-19 Thematic Website, Together, We Fight the Virus, Inbound Travel
COVID-19 Thematic Website - Together, We Fight the Virus - Inbound Travelwww.coronavirus.gov.hk
There’s no more inbound control upon arriving to HKIA unlike 2 months ago where everyone needs to line up and perform PCR tests on the spot.
Nowadays you just land and go straight to passport control then pickup ur luggage and head out.
COVID-19 Thematic Website, Together, We Fight the Virus, Inbound Travel
COVID-19 Thematic Website - Together, We Fight the Virus - Inbound Travelwww.coronavirus.gov.hk
You need to take a RAT or PCR which
May declare test result via the voluntary electronic Health Declaration Form
- Retain the photo showing the RAT result or the PCR test report for 90 days
No making 2 minute noodles in Y...This reminds me complaints from my friends (I’m mainland Chinese) when they asked for hot water on Qantas from PVG to SYD a few years ago, the answer is a straight no…
Can't believe any country on earth can justify outdoor facemasks, and their citizens put up with it. HK is loony tunes. Couldn't pay me to go there if I had to wear a face mask outside.They are going to ditch the outdoor masks rule by first quarter of 2023. But masks inside public transport will probably stays.
In places where people have chosen to wear masks during cold & flu season for decades it isn't as much of an impost as places that have been conditioned to see it as a nasty hardship.Can't believe any country on earth can justify outdoor facemasks, and their citizens put up with it. HK is loony tunes. Couldn't pay me to go there if I had to wear a face mask outside.
People were getting upset about others doing that here; I guess if what others do that doesn’t affect anyone else is all that said people have to be upset about, then they’ve got a pretty good life.In Japan people still wear masks while driving ALONE.
CZ resuming BNE:CZ will be adding another service from MEL and SYD:
China Southern NW23 Guangzhou – Oceania Service Expansion – 26JUL23 — AeroRoutes
Published at 1300GMT 26JUL23 China Southern this week begins service adjustment for service to Australia and New Zealand during Northern winter 2023/24 season, as the airline resumes additional routes/frequencies from Guangzhou . Planned adjustment as of 26JUL23 as follows. Guangzhou – Aucklandwww.aeroroutes.com
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I have trimmed (for brevity) and edited (to remove political irrelevance) your original post above @Melburnian1Of course it could also be related to the level of overall demand, but is it just a coincidence that with these mainland <redacted political nonsense> Chinese airlines increasing flight frequencies to Australia, long distance airfares seem to be dropping?
I don't reckon many Australians (of non-Chinese ethnicity) will use these mainland Chinese ones (unlike the Taiwanese carriers China Airlines and EVA Air, which are used by many Caucasians and other Australians) but if their increased presence brings down airfares a bit, good.