24 hour testing to fly being challenged in court

[Hawaiidan]

Saw today a blurb that airlines are taking the 24 hour rule  to court as no other country requires this...    You might look into this.     Just a heads up    About time !!! absolute power corrupts as is this case..  

[bbtondo]

Keeping fingers crossed that the US does away with requiring testing to fly into the US!

[Tea Snob]

Keeping our fingers crossed.  We do not have a cruise until March 2023 and hope (fingers and toes crossed) that nothing else pops up next year.

[Globaliser]

On 6/1/2022 at 7:06 PM, Hawaiidan said:

Saw today a blurb that airlines are taking the 24 hour rule  to court as no other country requires this...

 

No other country requires you to test and to be negative before you fly there? No other country in the whole world? Really?

[Hawaiidan]

2 hours ago, Globaliser said:

 

No other country requires you to test and to be negative before you fly there? No other country in the whole world? Really?

All the ones  I have seen.... and popular with visitors... Really chum.

[Bo1953]

4 hours ago, Globaliser said:

 

No other country requires you to test and to be negative before you fly there? No other country in the whole world? Really?

Thank you, the comment caught my eye, as well.

 

Actually, as per usual, the OP only means countries to which they care about flying into or from...

 

The others, they may not matter to them... LOL

 

bon voyage

[iancal]

We had to have an Antigen lab  test 24 hours or less prior to boarding our TAP flight to Lisbon in late May.  
 

Hardly a big deal.  We went to the pharmacy and had the test the morning of our flight.  Prices for the test ranged from $15-30 USD pp depending on the  the pharmacy.

 

We had no issue with it whatsoever.  Portugal is wise to insist on this.   Same for when we fly to the US.  We do not view it as particularly onerous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 6, 2022 by iancal

[FlyerTalker]

14 minutes ago, iancal said:

We do not view it as particularly onerous.

 

To each his own.

 

When there is easy, low-cost access to quick tests, it's one thing.

 

When testing is slow, expensive and/or cumbersome, that's another.  How would you feel if the pricing was over $150 per person rather than $15?

 

Have a chat with folks that have dealt with the latter category - you might be enlightened.

[iancal]

1 hour ago, FlyerTalker said:

 

To each his own.

 

When there is easy, low-cost access to quick tests, it's one thing.

 

When testing is slow, expensive and/or cumbersome, that's another.  How would you feel if the pricing was over $150 per person rather than $15?

 

Have a chat with folks that have dealt with the latter category - you might be enlightened.

We would not like it.  But..we had a choice so we took the least expensive and fastest.  We could have paid $200. For the three day test.  We also did our research and did not get stuck paying for last minute in airport tests.  Both were offered in most  places where we live.

 

We know people who opted for the $200 option when both we offered.  For some reason they complained even though the choice was theirs.

 

the thing is we knew the requirements for Portugal.  We made the decision knowing that.  We were also considering Greece with no test.  We know that, at the present time, if we want to travel to the US we will need test.  
 

for us it is a travel cost.  No different than the cost of a visa to enter Turkey, Cambodia, Thailand, etc.

 

 

Edited June 6, 2022 by iancal

[RickT]

In case people haven’t noticed the pandemic isn’t over.  Even though restrictions are being removed Covid cases are very high.  The only saving grace is hospitalizations are generally down.  

[iancal]

19 hours ago, RickT said:

In case people haven’t noticed the pandemic isn’t over.  Even though restrictions are being removed Covid cases are very high.  The only saving grace is hospitalizations are generally down.  

This is certainly the case where we are…in Portugal.  Everyone is wearing masks indoors and in public transport.