We just cancelled and I feel so much better. Six weeks ago, I thought I’d be ready, but with climbing numbers, I just can’t get on a plane yet. Thanks for getting back to me. I’m sure this was the right decision for us.
Omg I hope we are not waiting 2+hrs Tuesday morning , it will be an overnight flight as it is! Our flight out of Pearson we arrived 3 hrs early and it was plenty of time, no lines at all. I think it must depend on the flight time. BTW, did you print your test results to come back? I have our vaccines printed (and now uploaded to ArriveCAN) but only emails for the tests from the covid clinic. Not sure if I should bother the front desk again to print stuff off for me…Had our return flight from LAX to YYZ (Pearson) today. I have been sitting in the plane in Toronto for about 50 minutes! Seems they deplane connecting flights, but other have to wait. The flight attendant told us it would take about an hour to let the first group of 50 passengers through starting with First class then moving to passengers at the back of the plane. About 10 minutes or so per group. Apparently it has taken up to 3hours.Seems it has to do with the fact that it takes about 10x the time to process each passenger....
Anyhow... bring snacks and book seats as far up as possible! Hope they let me off
The poor flight attendants... lots of displeased people.
Update : It took us 2h30 from gate to exit. No one even looked at our ArriveCan app... only vaccine papers.
Pretty sure you have to wait 14 days from the date of your positive test before you can fly back to Canada.
I would print them, if possible.
I am not sure how they would, tbh. I just know that you can fly w/o a neg test if you have tested positive for covid bw 14 and 90 days. It is unlikely you would test negative 8 days after a positive.
Royal Caribbean.
We printed the results before leaving the hotel. It is not needed, but much easier to hand in a few papers than show the phone.
I work at the drive thru site and travelers are at the end of the queue for results. Everyone else goes first : healthcare workers, symptomatic people, school kids etc. In fact they recommend people pay for private service as results can take up to a week (for negative results). And the numbers of people getting tested has tripled in the last week or so which can mean longer wait times. Just a a heads up!
I’m glad you got such quick results! I just know that as nurses we have no power to expedite anything you click off the reason for testing and that’s it. Definitely worth trying as it’s $90 for just a rapid test privately!
I went over this with my wife and she said that the nurse asked our reason for testing and we said travel. She said that it has been noted and that we should have the results via eHealth within 12-24hrs. We asked if there will be a document to print off via eHealth and she said we would need to call our doctors office and have them print off a copy that we will need to pick-up.
