To go on a plane with covid?

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I have covid right now and due to fly to Spain in a few days. The rules are that I just need to show my vaccine pass but doesn’t seem to say don’t travel of you have covid. Can this be right? Don’t know if I need to cancel. I tested positive 4 days ago.

I would go by the rules.

Like another poster I find it odd that there have never been any legal requirement around not taking a child with chicken pox out and about until they have scabbed over and this is pretty much so universally accepted yet so many people minimise going about and with covid because it’s no longer a legal requirement to isolate. If the poster had asked a question about going to a concert with a child with chicken pox the answer would be a pretty much so universal no, yet an aeroplane with covid results in such mixed responses!

My daughter has had to cancel flying to Spain tomorrow due to a positive - sometimes in life things are so badly timed, I hope you get a neg soon.

If I was testing negative on the day of the flight then I’d go, if I was testing positive I wouldn’t and would try to rearrange a flight for as soon as I was testing negative.

Regardless of what the rules were I wouldn’t knowingly get into an enclosed space with recycled air with an illness that could make some passengers seriously ill and at least ruin the holidays of others.

Apparently there are no rules when flying between Spain and UK? So says my sister anyway who just flew out while positive, and back a week later, still testing positive. I couldn’t believe it, but I guess it sits with the individual re their own views/conscience etc

I’m supposed to be on a weekend away but have Covid so have cancelled it. We’ve missed an outdoor concert that was DH’s Christmas present, too .

I’m usually quite fit and healthy but I’ve had 3 days in bed. This morning I went downstairs for a cup of tea and needed a 3 hour nap after. I feel absolutely wiped out, my chest hurts from coughing, I can’t eat because my throat is so sore and my body feels like I’ve been hit by a bus.

I caught it from DH, who brought it home from work and had what seemed like a heavy cold. We wouldn’t have gone on holiday knowing he was positive either, but then we cancelled a holiday, on the morning we were due to go, because DS1 (who was 5 at the time) had gastroenteritis. And for the record, the insurance did pay out, no quibbles at all.

But the OP has been vaccinated and has a vaccine pass. I thought that was suppose to solve everything!

I wouldn't risk infecting other people

If your symptoms had started today and you were flying tomorrow I’d say you’d be a knob to fly but 7/8 days shouldn’t be a problem at all. You’d be back at work by then, and would quite happily go to the cinema or a sporting event. I’m CEV and I’d get on a plane with you.

My DS has just been on his first ever proper holiday abroad, with his dad. They have spent the entire time in isolation, with dS really very unwell for the first few days, because they caught covid off some utter dick at the airport or on the plane. He tested negative yesterday and is flying home today. If they were still testing positive then they'd have had to buy new flights later on in the week.

Don't be that dick, OP. Don't fly until you have a negative test.

Am I missing something? We don't have testing in the UK anymore fore most people. How are people still testing?

This is wombat living with it looked like and what most people on mumsnet seemed to want.

Yes, amazing how many people who can assure us that they or their loved one got covid in a way that reinforces whatever their pre-existing viewpoint was. It must be the plane, even though there are loads of other options. It must've been someone who knew they were positive and travelled anyway, even though asymptomatic transmission is everywhere.

If you tested piste today I would have said no...however think you should be fine by Wednesday. I would go.

I don't believe those saying they would cancel a holiday in the OPs circumstances. She will be 8 days past her first positive test by the time she flies. Ignore the self-righteous idiots and enjoy the holiday OP!

Don't listen to people saying don't listen to people.

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When I flew to the USA last year I had to do a PCR test the day before I flew, which was very expensive and a pain to organise but at least I knew that everyone else on the plan had also been tested and was Covid free.

Having read some of the replies on here regarding flying with Covid I realise that when I fly this year I will be surrounded by selfish people who are only thinking of themselves, happy to pass on the virus as long as their own holiday is not disrupted.

You have no idea where your DS got covid. It could have been from you FFS.

I'm surprised so many people even know and are still testing

It’s quite likely your son and his dad caught it before and passed it on to other people in the airport and on the flight. That doesn’t make them “utter dicks”. It just makes them unlucky. It would’ve been the same if they’d come down with any illness. When you go on holiday there’s a chance you might get sick, it’s rubbish if you do but it’s just one of those things.

See I tested positive yesterday and can go back to work in a school with vulnerable children after 5 days, no obligation to test before I go back. So no wonder it’s rife again. Children only have to have 3 days off.

Me too. Lots of people causing themselves lots of unnecessary stress, not to mention all the wasted plastic.

Why? Surely if you’re ill you test? I had a terrible headache yesterday that I’ve only ever experienced when I last had covid, so I tested. It’s positive.

It's that weird impulse to try and ascribe morality to virus transmission again. Me or my loved one is suffering, so someone must have done something wrong.

Though only up to a point obviously, because any transmitting her DS may have unwittingly done whilst travelling or on holiday doesn't even merit a mention. Perish the thought that whoever he got it from might have also had no idea they were infectious and had their own holiday ruined too.

It wouldn't be kind to other passengers though with the rule changes I'd think lots of people are doing the same as they no longer need isolation without systems.

It's a fucker it spreads so fast.

People need to start getting their heads around this.

There is no requirement to test any more. So many people have Covid. In the supermarket, in the schools, theatres, restaurants- you could pick it up anywhere. And it’s mild now for most.

Planes have HEPA filters which replace the air in the cabin every few minutes. I’ve been a close contact on many flights and not caught it.

If you currently get on a plane, please know that probably at least 10 people will have Covid as there is no requirement to test. So asymptomatic people, people who think they have a sniffle or a cold. That’s not being selfish and purposely killing people. Tests cost money and we don’t need to test any more. I am not sure why people still are? Unless visiting vulnerable people.

So many unhinged people on this thread need to start to realise that this is life now. If you don’t like it then don’t go out. You are just as likely to pick it up in the supermarket as the plane.