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Post by mak » February 13, 2020, 6:37 am

Travelling to the US from Thailand through the Pacific route. Many will be/have been. Any advice would be appreciated. There are many optional routes: Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and even China. Any recommended precautions during this period of the corona virus?



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Post by Stantheman » February 13, 2020, 6:45 am

If your whole concern is the corona virus definitely bypass China and Hong Kong if traveling prior to June, if
June or later l don't think any city should be bypassed

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Post by GT93 » February 13, 2020, 7:08 am

I doubt this pandemic will be over by June. I suspect if you're travelling from June that by then simply coming from Thailand means you'll be required to quarantine yourself on arrival in the US for 14 or more days.
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Re: Travel Advice

Post by Kenr6583 » February 13, 2020, 7:18 am

Will be flying out on February 27th via Taiwan on Eva airlines and coming back on March 16th. Hope you are wrong GT93, that would suck.

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Post by Kenr6583 » February 13, 2020, 8:00 am

Just read on Eva airlines page that they are not allowing anyone that has been in China, Hong Kong, and Macau to transfer through or enter Taiwan at Taipei airport. So that is a positive.

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Post by Charlieb » February 13, 2020, 9:34 am

Depends on your US destination Gus.
I go to Dallas so the best route for me is Korean Airlines via Seoul Korea. Straight shot to Korea, 2 hour layover and then straight to DFW.

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Post by Kenr6583 » February 13, 2020, 10:04 am

Not many options out of Houston. Eva hands down the shortest flight time, to and from. Love Singapore, flew them exclusively before Eva started here, just too damn long of a flight.

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Post by mak » May 24, 2021, 7:15 am

U.S. Says Airlines From These Countries Aren’t Safe.
These are the nations that do not meet those standards: Bangladesh, Curacao, Ghana, Malaysia, The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (which include Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Nevis, and Antigua), Pakistan, Thailand, and Venezuela.

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Post by Niggly » May 24, 2021, 7:24 am

What standards are they referring to?

Internationally recognised aviation standards or just some US specific standards recently (or not) published?
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Re: Travel Advice

Post by mak » May 24, 2021, 7:28 am

Don't fly over Belarus airspace.
Ryanair flight forced to land in Belarus with top activist on board.

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Post by jackspratt » May 24, 2021, 8:04 am

mak wrote:
May 24, 2021, 7:28 am
Don't fly over Belarus airspace.
Ryanair flight forced to land in Belarus with top activist on board.
The precedent for such lawlessness was established in 2013 - you can ask the Bolivians.

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Post by tamada » May 24, 2021, 8:23 am

^^ That was breaking news last night as breaking sleep took over me.

Appears that Belarus air traffic control, with the possible collusion of agents of President Lukashenko onboard a scheduled Ryanair flight from Athens to Vilnius, somehow advised the flight crew that there was a bomb onboard (there wasn't) and land immediately in Minsk, shepherded by an air force plane. Whereupon a leading opposition blogger was removed from the plane by said operatives.

The anti-government blogger had been listed as a terrorist by the Lukashenko regime. Queue the usual anti-terrorism claims from the tinpot dictator.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/23/europe/b ... index.html

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