I arrived at EZE this morning on UA847 from IAD. All passengers were required to fill out a detailed form from the Argentine Ministry of Health that was distributed during the flight.

Details of previous travel in the past 14 days, and travel after arrival in Argentina were requested, along with addresses and local contact telephone numbers, a contact address and telephone number in the passenger's home country, and an email address. Also details of the arrival flight and seat number were required, along with the usual passport/ID information.

The form was set up for arrival by land, sea, or air, but I don't know whether it has been implemented at other entry points, or for arrivals from other than North America. The form was in Spanish/Portuguese/English, although the English was of poor quality and badly designed, and the form is confusing, since it doesn't detail, for example, the date format required, or whether the departure day or arrival day of the flight should be filled in.

Upon landing at EZE, our aircraft was directed to Terminal B (the AR terminal) to deplane, but we had to wait until an AA aircraft was pulled back from the jetway we needed to use. We had to wait for about 20 minutes on board, since there was not enough room to process all arriving passengers because there were two AA flights that had landed just before the UA flight (at about 9:30 am). Probably there were more than 500 passengers waited to be processed. Passengers who had connecting flights at EZE were allowed to deplane first.

Passengers were lined up in the jetways and into the outside corridor before being scanned individually by a thermal camera before being allowed to proceed into the terminal and into the immigration hall. Influenza information handouts were distributed in Spanish and English. All the healthcare workers were wearing face masks and white coats. Other airport workers had been issued masks, but many of them were clearly uncomfortable wearing them, and were continually pulling them off their faces.

After being scanned, immigration and baggage claim were fast due to the holdup in screening, and the fact that baggage was unloaded during the time were were waiting on the aircraft after landing. Since I only had one checked bag, I was allowed to exit without X-ray screening (this seemed to be the case with passengers without baggage carts).

I was the fourth passenger off my flight, and because they were interleaving the passengers from all three flights, I was able to exit the airport without a significant delay.

However, if anyone is traveling in the rear of the aircraft, and arriving during the morning arrival bank, there will be a significant holdup in waiting to be processed.

John