Originally Posted by
usefuloxymoron
Greetings experts; I have a predicament of using the stopover policy on my award flight from San Francisco to JNB. I plan on using the stopover in Asia but what if I am not allowed to go into various countries because of COVID 19 rules requiring quarantine or deny you entrance? As such, as an insurance policy, I thought about booking a Cathay award without the stopover. The booking agent said that it may flag as a duplicate and one may be cancelled. Should I create a booking one day apart? Does anyone have any insight into how this might work out? People prior to the pandemic I'm sure booked different days with similar itineraries in case their schedules changed as a result of them having a large award balance? Thanks for your time!
Will you be able to enter South Africa? Tourists from high-risk countries are still barred from entering. If you are in a country for 10 days that is not on the high-risk list, you may enter South Africa. HKG would need to be open and your stopover 10 days before heading to South Africa. If HKG isn't opened, you will be out of luck. You won't be able to transit HKG as you won't be permitted to enter South Africa. Additionally, you won't be able to transit HKG to a third country that is open & not on the list and then return to HKG to transit on to South Africa as transits in HKG need to be all on one ticket. All awards terminate in HKG unless continuing on to North America.
The latest list of high risk countries is:
- Argentina
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- France
- Germany
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Italy
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- Peru
- Philippines
- Russia
- Spain
- United Kingdom (UK)
- USA (United States of America)
James