British Airways coronavirus flight changes – an update as of Monday 24th February

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• Kris says:

  24 Feb24 February 03:12

  Any thoughts on Tokyo? I’m supposed to fly out Wednesday. The marathon has been cancelled for us regular people but since things don’t seemed to have changed much, I thought I’d travel anyway. I’m on BA to Heathrow then JAL to Tokyo. Flights are still scheduled but I’m slightly worried things may change while I’m there & I’ll have a hard time getting back.

  • Lumma says:

    24 Feb24 February 04:40

    Hi Kris

    I’m currently in Tokyo and everything is working as normal. Due to its island status and the high standard of cleanliness in the country I’d say Japan is as safe as anywhere right now. The customs man at Narita did say to me “Japan is very dangerous right now” but everyone else at the airport was very friendly and welcoming.

  • Young L says:

    24 Feb24 February 04:52

    I’ve cancelled mine. I think the chances of getting the virus is small (although it is going up), but it is likely that when you come back, you have to isolate yourself for two weeks.

    • Lumma says:

      24 Feb24 February 06:36

      Take that cruise ship out of the equation and there’s more cases in Italy than in Japan

      • Andy says:

        24 Feb24 February 10:09

        When at Customs, always choose the oldesr, most senior looking member of staff.

    • Qrfan says:

      24 Feb24 February 06:56

      It’s not “likely” you have to self isolate unless you classify getting a cough in the two week period after returning as being “likely”. For an otherwise healthy person with good hygiene that’s definitely not the case.

      • Rob says:

        24 Feb24 February 08:42

        My kids school will not let you return today if you were in a long list of countries.

• Phillip says:

  24 Feb24 February 04:57

  I think BA is still slightly confused! I had a notification that my flight to Beijing on 12 September has been cancelled and I was rebooked on the 13th, yet, the flight is still bookable both with cash and Avios. There has been a change in flight number too, so not sure if that caused them even more confusion!

• Simon says:

  24 Feb24 February 06:24

  Please can you correct your article or at least link to the sources for your entry restrictions. I’m sitting in Hong Kong about to depart for Tokyo and your article suggests I will be refused entry, which is currently not the case.

  • Jack says:

    24 Feb24 February 07:34

    +1

    This panicked me briefly

    • Rob says:

      24 Feb24 February 08:40

      The list is from BA, follow through link to the Travel Trade site.

      • Mark says:

        24 Feb24 February 10:47

        I think the point is that the linked material is misleading. Most of those countries aren’t restricting entry from Hong Kong (though some may be) – Hong Kong itself is on the list.

        I’m sure it also missing countries, e.g. Vietnam, Taiwan (which is refusing entry to anyone who has been in Hong Kong or Macau within the past 14 days as well) but that’s perhaps because BA does not fly to those countries.

• Mike P says:

  24 Feb24 February 07:14

  The current advisory for Japan is as follows :

  Passengers who meet one or more of the following criteria are not permitted to enter Japan:
  Travelling on a People’s Republic of China passport that lists Hubei or Zhejiang province as the place of issue.
  Have visited either the Hubei or Zhejiang province in the past 14 days.

• Mike says:

  24 Feb24 February 07:33

  Can one use flying club miles for internal flights across the USA with delta ?

  • Lumma says:

    24 Feb24 February 08:19

    Yes. I think you can book online

• Sandra says:

  24 Feb24 February 10:07

  In my experience, although Dutch & French school holidays rarely match the UK, KLM prices still increased when flying out of the UK with them during UK school holidays dates and when flying regularly with KLM to the Middle East I would quite often take my kids out of school a day or two early (especially at Christmas and Easter) to get a significantly cheaper ticket. I would tell the headteacher that the tickets were company booked so we had no choice but to take what was offered!

• Lumma says:

  24 Feb24 February 14:52

  I’ve always wondered if those temperature check things actually do anything or if they’re just there to scare people into self diagnosis

  Flew to Tokyo 2 weeks ago and fell ill on the plane (think it was a bit of food poisoning from London or Frankfurt). Was wondering if I’d be showing as having a temperature but sailed thru no problems.

  • Peter K says:

    24 Feb24 February 15:05

    I imagine they are set to avoid too many false positives (people being pulled over when they are healthy). You will most likely need a clinical fever (+ a margin for error, maybe 1 standard deviation) to be pulled out of the crowd.

  • ankomonkey says:

    24 Feb24 February 15:21

    Last week when entering a small airport in Turkey, they were using thermal imaging on all arriving passengers.

• Singapore says:

  24 Feb24 February 15:06

  We were held for the same amount of time when returning from Singapore 2 weeks ago. The announcement pre-disembarking asked for anyone feeling ill to speak to the crew. I’m not sure of the procedure if someone does that?

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