• COVID extras for US-EU-UK travel

    From Mark Carroll@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 12 19:54:55 2021
    I've not flown internationally since the pandemic took hold.
    I have a journey coming up from the US to Scotland via Amsterdam.
    I was fully vaccinated in the US, I have my CDC card.

    My reading of the requirements is, before I travel:

    - I need to book a PCR test for just after I arrive in the UK.
    - I need to fill out a UK passenger locator form for the UK.
    - I need to fill out a health declaration for the Netherlands.

    ... and that's all? For instance, it doesn't look as if I need to be
    tested until I am in Scotland. A couple of questions:

    - Does this look wrong or incomplete?
    - Is there some coherent up-to-date source for this stuff?
    Mostly I seem to be dealing with a patchwork of out-of-date sources.

    (I checked with my airline and they don't even seem to much cope
    with that Scotland is different from England.)

    -- Mark

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  • From Mark Carroll@21:1/5 to Mark Carroll on Mon Nov 15 09:46:24 2021
    On 12 Oct 2021, Mark Carroll wrote:

    (snip)
    - I need to book a PCR test for just after I arrive in the UK.

    Yup, I did. And then another before returning to the US. It's likely
    that sub-PCR would now suffice but I wanted to be sure, on the UK side
    the rules seemed to be in flux.

    - I need to fill out a UK passenger locator form for the UK.

    Yup.

    - I need to fill out a health declaration for the Netherlands.

    Ha. No on the outbound, when I had one, but yes for the return flight,
    when I didn't. Also for the return leg, I managed to get via some
    official source (CDC or Delta) a passenger attestation form for COVID
    stuff that turned out to be "the old one" so I needed to fill in
    another. Even more inconsistency, on the Delta domestic, they gave us
    santizing wipes on boarding, for the long-haul they didn't. At least it
    all worked out in the end.

    -- Mark

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