Close contact on outbound flight.

[iloveredpandas]

Struggling to find an answer to this. But say, you travel to Spain and then someone on the flight gets a positive test result a couple of days after you land - do you need to isolate in Spain in your accommodation over there, or are the rules different?

I do believe they pick you up and take you to another hotel, along with your travelling companions. Who pays, I think the insurance would pay for the positive person, but not the others. There was a couple of young girls on tv 2 weeks ago, they went to Majorca for 4 days, one tested positive on the test to fly home 2 days in. They were in separate rooms, but had no idea who was paying for the hotel and they thought that they had to test negative before being allowed to fly back. Don’t know if it’s changed now though.

Thank you but what I meant was if you are a close contact, not if you are actually positive. I.e. a random person on the plane tests positive and you were sitting near them.

If you were wearing a mask on the flight and the positive person was wearing a mask then I think you should be ok

Why would a person on the plane take a test on arrival in Spain? It’s not a requirement so I don’t know why anyone would risk it. Coming back is different of course.

The rules are pretty similar, it's ten days isolation. Exactly how/where is determined by the government of the region you are in.

@Aposterhasnoname

Why would a person on the plane take a test on arrival in Spain? It’s not a requirement so I don’t know why anyone would risk it. Coming back is different of course.

If they feel ill, perhaps?

@Aposterhasnoname

Why would a person on the plane take a test on arrival in Spain? It’s not a requirement so I don’t know why anyone would risk it. Coming back is different of course.

I don't understand what you mean - If they suspected they were ill then why wouldn't they?!

@MaggieFS

The rules are pretty similar, it's ten days isolation. Exactly how/where is determined by the government of the region you are in.

Ive been researching more and I think from what I have read Spain don't have an isolation people for double jabbed.

@iloveredpandas Oh that's good news! Could you send me a link please? I'm going in September and have a fiend (100% my friend not a random dog's aunt's brother's story) who is double jabbed and just had to do ten days isolation in Mallorca after being called as a close contact of someone out there. So not from the flight but a contact after arrival. She finally made it back home last week.
I'm hoping to avoid the same when we go!