Originally Posted by downinit

Given the current explosion of Covid cases, if they were to charter an evac flight for everyone who tested positive on vacation, they would surely go bankrupt in a very short order. I would be quite shocked if any policy T&C's allowed evacs due to asymptomatic or mild infections. The purpose of medical evacuation has always been to give people life-saving treatment that is unavailable locally, not to skirt around quarantine requirements.

I agree yet I am hearing a lot of anecdotal instances of people using these services for this purpose. I suspect that these policies were offered without expecting omicron hitting over the heavy holiday travel season.