I found aer lingus fantastic and was able to change via their website.
I did it via "manage my booking". Completely transparent and when the replacement flights were no more expensive there was genuinely no charge.
(I had the opposite experience with ryanair and lastminute.com who both made it so difficult and expensive that it was cheaper to just book entirely new flights from scratch than try to uptake the "free change" option)
I’ve a flight to Los Angles booked with aerlingus for the end of next month for an 8 day trip. It’s becoming obvious that this holiday is in complete jeopardy now what with restrictions on both our side and the US side.
Ive a deposit on the flight atm but the airline is looking for full payment of the balance.
Does anyone have direct experience on if it’s easy to change dates and still retain your deposit on their system (I’m thinking of making it July or August at this point)
Any advise would be great
Flight from London to Dublin Monday at 6.30pm. Looking to book antigen for Saturday evening as we have something on that night and don't want to risk the chance testing positive Sunday. Place next to hotel does tests last time available on the Saturday is 5.50pm.. Would we get away with that, only 40minutes pre flight prior to the 48hour time period.
It doesn't matter how many times you repeat it, it still doesn't make it correct.
It's a different variant, so you can no longer infer a linear relationship of hospitalisations for Delta.
I'm probably wasting my time but, hey ho.
If Delta infects 1,000 people resulting in 25 hospital admissions and 5 of these going to ICU then it is correct to expect that 2,000 Delta infections will result in 50 hospital admissions and 10 in ICU.
However we do not yet know what percentage of Omicron cases end up in hospital. It is a DIFFERENT variant as can be seen by its increased transmissability. It is also likely to have a change in the severity of its symptoms, it may be more severe, it may be less severe, it might remain the same. But we don't know yet.
Wondering what applies for travel to France from Ireland?
This article refers to Countries outside of the EU in one paragraph and Schengen Countries in another.
I mentioned in a post above about fit-to-fly cert and that many companies offering it by conducting test yourself and sending them results. Then they issue cert.
How do they distinguish a lab conducted test v at home test you've done on the cert. I'm sure all they are looking for is the word negative. That's even if they check in that much detail.
or
https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/national/19755918.experts-expect-details-omicron-transmission-within-days/
Always going to have conflicting stuff I think
Like it or not, that is why many people took vaccines
How do I ignore a user if their profile is private ?
Both Boots and Lloyd's Pharmacy do instore antigen tests for £30 for anyone going to GB, you make an appointment on line, just go onto their website and choose the Pharmacy you want and book the appointment.
Antigen is cheaper even via a lab and unlike pcr not going to find ancient microscopic pieces of old virus from an old infection.
You are less likely to return a positive on antigen and its cheaper.
Plus, there is always the option to travel via Belfast and avoid the hassle/risk being reimposed on us by the most incompetent ****-the-bed-in-fear-daily govt in history.
Its possibly different in 2 senses,its much more spreadable than Delta which is already very spreadable AND worse it may bypass immunity from previous infection to do this spreading
What that could mean is more infections and because of the linear relationship between the two,that means more hospitalisations
If both double,there will be government reactions everywhere
Expect extra shots to become requirements for valid EUDCC's going forward mainly because untill this virus is severely limited worldwide, we are at risk of seeing variants of concern like this one
Interim periods while the authorities work out what's going on are going to see what we are seeing now
Fly through Belfast. No testing requirements at all.
Its lab conducted antigen so its not as easy as I just buy one and do it myself.
Imagine having no symptoms, doing a test on your return to Ireland and finding out you are positive. 10 days having to quarantine in England, missing work, having to pay for a hotel for 10 days and only landing back to Ireland Dec 23rd / 24th if you are lucky.
But we already know immunity wanes after about 4-6 months after any infection or vaccine
We saw what happened in Israel with the second Delta wave and the booster dampened that wave
There is no evidence to suggest a booster won't dampen a wave of Omicron here
Also we are much more vaccinated than these areas in South Africa.
From what I see this wave is no different to other waves of any type of variant that in occur in lowly vaccinated or waning vaccinated populations
If we panic like this every 6 months it is going to be a really miserable few years.
Yeah at one gp practice in Soweto with initial clusters
Things have moved on a bit😱
So do we have confirmation that it’s fine to get an antigen test in Dublin, for a quick trip to London, and that the test doesn’t have to be done in the country you’re arriving from?
I am fairly certain I seen somewhere that the reports are this "variant" isnt as bad as they are saying 😂
Oh for heavens sake
Vaccines weren't invented for just air travel 🙄
We are awaiting news on how vaccine evading omicron is
Latest news out of South Africa is not good
WHO are updating in a few days
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-emerging-picture-from-south-africa-suggests-omicron-variant-could-be-real-cause-for-concern-12484064
With change fees and fare differences
Thats as expensive as cancelling
Yes the cert is all you need. PCR tests have also been done that way all along, self administered and dropped to a collection point.
As the man says, flying via Belfast if your concerned. Very easy to get back to Dublin then on the train.
Just change your return flights to Belfast if you’re doing a weekend in UK.
Heading over tomorrow and will be coming back Sunday.
So is it correct I can go over without a test but on return I need an antigen test.
If that is positive I need to stay in a hotel for 10 days paid by myself?
If so I wonder is it worth it, I have an important work week next week and Christmas is coming from a financial point of view.
Why exactly did we take vaccines.
Question on the antigen test - I'm going to be flying back to Ireland from the UK and I can get an antigen test online for £20, but it basically seems to be a self-administered at home test, you then send result to the testing company and they issue a fit-to-fly cert. Seems to be quite a few online testing options taking this approach. I know the government have mentioned professional lab test for antigen but I don't know how they would actually check this. Even Michael O'Leary made this point yesterday. I'm assuming once you have a fit-to-fly cert attached to you ticket thats all the airline cares about.
It's PCR *or* antigen.
I get the terror of a PCR test - It could detect microscopic amounts of virus from months ago, long after the disease has stopped being infectious.
But antigen will most likely only be positive if you recently acquired it and are contagious. They are cheaper and less likely to f**k up your plans.
This is a stupid decision by the govt, but lots of people getting upset about the cost and risk of PCRs when ANTIGEN TESTS ARE ACCEPTED!
Antigen are accepted for vaccinated travellers and far cheaper than PCR . Not ideal but at least shaves some of the cost and time wasting off.
Well, people on this thread were saying airlines wouldn't enforce this at all, especially Ryanair, so it'll be surprising to them anyway.
Is this supposed to be surprising?
I see posts on Twitter that Ryanair are enforcing Portugal's testing requirements and people have been denied boarding on flights because they didn't have a negative test as required in Portugal. Example below.
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