To go on a plane with covid?

[Coursha]

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'd of thought you might be ok OP, tbh I'd be more worried that another family member might have caught it and be positive by then.

If you are going might be worth testing everyone before as some countries are still doing random testing at airports, Greece are but not sure about Spain.

Surely you'll be over Covid by the time you fly. If you've still got it though I'm sure the expectation is you don't fly.

Just go, like everyone else is.

If that is the case, then we all need to accept that we are at an increased risk of being ill on holiday.
Having been abroad and one of my DC’s being really ill, not something I would wish on anyone. I had to stay on, in another country, had to move accommodation, manage hospital visits and all without my DH (at the time) who had to fly home.

Don’t go if you’re not testing negative. You’ll potentially infect all the other passengers, which might include babies, pensioners, the clinically vulnerable. At best you’ll ruin their holiday, at worst you’ll make someone very ill.

Saying there are no rules about having COVID just about being vaccinated, is irrelevant. They probably think it’s obvious not to fly in that situation. They do ask if you’re well, and sometimes do your temperature. They did this pre-COVID to a passenger on my flight who looked unwell.

You could also invalidate your insurance.

Very good point. They could have been the ones spreading it around at the airport and in the plane.

You’ll be out of your 5 days in a few days so it’s fine

You could also invalidate your insurance.

As she wouldn't be in breech of any covid guidance (let alone legalities), why would that be the case?

And I don't understand the reference to babies. Babies have never been at any great risk from Covid.

@TheKeatingFive And I don't understand the reference to babies. Babies have never been at any great risk from Covid.

This is simply not true. I'm aghast that someone could be this stupid to believe this.

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.

and I've been a close contact with positive family members on many occasions and not caught it despite no HEPA filters. Your anecdata proves nothing. Some people catch it, some people don't.

Quit with the unhinged comments, it's just pathetic.

The OP wont be infectious by the time she flies but, in general, if you know you have it and are infectious you shouldn't fly etc in the same way you wouldn't
do stuff if you had chicken pox.

@QueSyrahSyrah

Planes. Don't. Recirculate. Air.

Actually they do recirculate some (well most modern jet airliners do)..here's my take on it.

Air circulates around the cabin - on each lap some of it gets dumped overboard... to replace that loss there's a continuous top of fresh air from outside, traditionally provided from the front stages of the engines but on some newer types it comes from dedicated compressors.

The portion of air that does not get dumped and is recirculated goes through HEPA filters before being fed back the conditioning system and then into the cabin again...( I think that's been mentioned more than once today...)

End result is the whole volume of cabin air gets replaced multiple times an hour,

From the passengers POV they are either breathing newly introduced fresh air or air that has been through the filters. They certainly shouldn't be breathing unfiltered recirculated air.

FWIW in addition there's lot of clever work done on how the air flows through the aircraft to reduce things like, err...the travel of odours around the cabin, and coincidentally to some extent that reduces the likely hood of any other contaminants spreading.

TBH the air in an airliner cabin is probably better managed and certainly better filtered air than you'll find on most buses, trains, cars and in places like airport terminals etc.

HTH.

This is simply not true. I'm aghast that someone could be this stupid to believe this

And have you got any data to demonstrate that babies are at greater risk of serious outcomes? Before you go round calling people stupid?

Would you fly if you had a cold?

The level of dickishness in the general population seems to be rising.

For everyone saying there's no rules on chicken pox etc.

There are:

BA's chickenpox policy states that you can fly 6 days after the last crop of spots, providing the spots have crusted/scabbed over and the passenger feels well and has no fever. You will require a letter from your Doctor confirming you are no longer contagious.

The information is there. It's not up to me to educate the people who are too lazy to do it themselves and instead spread false and harmful information.

I recently came back from Spain and it was like half the plane seemed to have it. I'd never heard so much coughing and sneezing. So even if you don't go it's likely there'll be other carriers on the plane, either on the outgoing or on the return.

The information is there. It's not up to me to educate the people who are too lazy to do it themselves and instead spread false and harmful information.

The data is clear that the very young are at no huge risk. If you have anything that contradicts that do share it, but throwing around insults isn't the way to win an argument

We all know Covid affects older people more.

Utter hysteria about babies! Crazy thread.

You shouldn't get on a plane when you have Covid and knowingly risk infecting a whole lot of other people...

Don't travel until you get a negative test.

Surely that is blindingly obvious?

Could say the same about you. Why would you expect people to sacrifice their hard earned time and money because some random people who they’ve never met might be affected from a virus that you are no longer required to even test for!
get a grip!!

Yes. I've caught colds when away on holiday many times and have flown back as planned.

Should I have been left there with no accommodation when my hotel reservation came to an end?

I think some people have developed a kind of Stockholm syndrome in regards to covid! They long for the days of lockdowns and restrictions and wish that we could go back to it.

I strongly suspect that these people never had many friends or much of a life generally.
I definitely don’t think they went out to eat much and rarely went on holiday!

it seems to me that people like this had their choices validated then, and now can’t cope when we are back living our lives pre covid.
I feel sorry for them.

To reiterate, many people will have Covid on every flight due to prevalence at the moment and people not testing.

You are probably more likely to get it from a restaurant (air not filtered) or a gig (close proximity to people).

The sooner everyone gets their heads around this and stops with the ‘murdering babies’ hysteria the better.

You have a choice. Don’t fly if it bothers you. But there will be Covid positive people on every flight.

Bullsh1t.
The incubation period is, I think, 4 days so no way did he become I’ll in the first few days by getting it on the flight out.