Originally Posted by
Scifience
Serious question—how in the hell are they enforcing this? Because from my experience, they aren't.
Case in point: arrived at IAD today, cleared via GE as normal, and was never asked about my travel history to China in the last 14 days, either by the GE kiosk or by any airport or CBP personnel. Not even a temperature scanner like often seen at airports in Asia. Absent perhaps a direct Mainland China - US flight (or maybe single ticket Mainland China - XXX - US itinerary), it seems like nothing at all is being enforced. Does CBP/CDC not realize that people can fly China-EU-US itineraries (or infinite other permutations) on multiple tickets?
Or—shock—perhaps this really is just more theatre?
Because officially the ban hasn't taken effect yet. Here at ORD it starts at 1700 local today. We have one UA flight running late (1749) so we'll see what happens. MU is still scheduled for tomorrow, UA has one flight planned, HU I haven't seen any formal suspension. Tuesday UA intent is send 87 and 88 to ORD instead of EWR.