<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by DebBrown:
No surprise but I can easily book business class award seats for a trip from LAX to AKL with a Hongkong connection. What worries me is the procedures posted on the CX website for Hongkong regarding taking temps, etc. Is this really a big deal?
I would be sending my daughter and granddaughter on this flight and I hate to see them stranded because the child had a fever for some other unrelated reason.
Any first hand experience? They'd be travelling the end of May.
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As I understand it, transiting passengers are required to submit to a ear thermometer check at the transit point. If the temperature is above 38 degrees Celsius, the process is repeated on the other ear. If the temperature is still over the prescribed threshold, a temperature check is conducted with a mercury thermomenter. If after that the temperature is still too high, the passenger is referred to a medical clinic. Doctors will issue a certificate proclaiming any passenger fit to fly if they can positively ID the symptoms as a throat infection, for example.
This is how it is supposed to work in theory... and hopefully practice.
Hope this helps a bit.