Flying to Spain but tested positive

[Itwasgoodwhileitlasted]

I'm going to have to cancel aren't I?

Flight on Sunday

Hopefully jet2 will give me a full refund. Anyone experienced this yet?

I didn't think you had to test anymore or stay at home .?

You definitely are going to have to cancel I'm afraid.

I'm guessing that you'll probably have to claim on your travel insurance, I wouldn't imagine that it's Jet2s problem but I'm sure there'll be something on their website.

Get well soon.

I’m not sure actually now the actual law doesn’t say you can’t travel

That said if the Spanish make you sign a form saying you don’t have covid (not sure if they still do but they did) then yes you have to cancel and insurance (not jet2) should sort it out

It sounds like rubbish timing I’m sorry

It would be an awful thing to do to the other passengers.

You don’t need the form to enter Spain anymore, but you do need to get on a plane and airlines don’t allow you on board if you’re positive.

Jet2 probably won’t refund you, but your insurance should. Make sure you have proof of the positive test, and you claim ASAP as most policies have a maximum amount of time that can pass between you knowing you won’t travel, and informing them. Be careful not to go over that amount of hours/days, or they might refund at all.

@EileenGC that is a very good point.

Thanks to you all. It doesn't seem fair to travel and my husband hasn't caught it yet either, which I guess means he could potentially be feeling ill while we are away.

I guess I'm cancelling. Sob, sob

Sorry to hear this OP, but your i surance should refund you. Fairly sure you can't fly.

How will the airline know OP is positive...? There are no tests required for Spain if fully vax.

That's true, but you are asked not to travel if positive or symptomatic.

@5zeds

It would be an awful thing to do to the other passengers.

I don’t disagree but am fairly sure it is happening on pretty much every plane right now. Some will do it knowingly many more just won’t have tested and will be infectious without knowing it

@Flamingjunior

How will the airline know OP is positive...? There are no tests required for Spain if fully vax.

The decent thing to do if you're positive and the reason you're travelling isn't a life-or-death kind of thing, is to stay home.

The airline won't ask you, even Spain won't care as isolation has ended there for mild cases, but you might still screw up other people's plans if you share your virus with those sat around you.

Some of us live in another third country where we WILL have to isolate and miss work if we test positive. I flew A to Spain and Spain to B recently. Neither A nor Spain had any rules in place, but I tested positive once in country B, and was legally required to isolate and missed work (and the pay that came with it) as a consequence.

@Itwasgoodwhileitlasted - I think you should cancel. Covid is miserable and this variant is so infectious you are almost bound to have given it to your DH unless you've been super careful.

I'm on day 4, DH on day 3 and son on day 5 currently. I can sit about but if I do anything I feel spacey and weird. I'm snotty and grotty. DH is worse. I really wouldn't want to be anywhere but my own home and bed right now. And it is progressing to worse over the days so not sure you can gauge how you'll be once out there.

That's quite apart from the fact there is no way I could get on a plane full of people knowing I had Covid and may infect someone who would be really unwell with it. I don't care what the rules do or don't say now, I just wouldn't do it.