Originally Posted by
michael1023
so with my trip to Ecuador about a month away, and with Ecuador experience a surge in COVID cases, testing etc...is there a reliable, acceptable test I can travel with that I can use to show Jetblue that I indeed tested for COVID 72 hours before my flight? Accepted by Jetblue/CDC?
edit: I know i saw one from Abbot BinaxNOW, FDA approved...could that also mean CDC/airline approved? sorry to ask, just want to be sure
Thank you
Originally Posted by
FlyAO2
Still no real guidance on this from any airline. Some people have claimed they have had success with emed/binaxnow - but absent an official declaration from an airline, I'm not going to take that chance. Big problems if you get to the airport and they don't take it!
Our recent experience suggests that a trip to the actual ticket counter on a day prior to your flight (same flight would be ideal) will get you the clarity you need. They will usually know what test from where that they will accept, and be ready to leave the airport and go get your test and shell out however much they ask or reconsider the trip (ours was $400/person at SFO).
You definitely DO NOT want to have to deal with this at the time of check-in the day of your flight. I saw others dealing with it and it's ultra stressful to leave the airport, get a test and come back in time to checkin and board.