Italy specific requirements at T5
Oct 1, 2020, 1:47 pm
#241
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Does anyone know if for BA T5 to Italy flights, larger hand luggage still needs to be checked in? I thought I read somewhere that use of the overhead lockers was restricted, based on some Italian rules and regulations?
Thanks!
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Oct 1, 2020, 1:50 pm
#242
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Oct 1, 2020, 1:52 pm
#243
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i think only Turkey has a restriction atm where wheely bags must be checked.
Oct 1, 2020, 1:54 pm
#244
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More details about that brief period in posts 51, 63 and thereafter, upthread.
Oct 1, 2020, 2:08 pm
#245
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We’ve spent about 2 hours on the phone to BA to (successfully) change our upcoming weekend trip from a now no longer exempt destination to Italy. Given the circumstances, I really feel that BA are doing all they can to provide excellent customer service, thumbs up!
Oct 3, 2020, 9:27 am
#246
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Does anyone have any recent experience of travelling to Palermo (or elsewhere in Sicily) with BA? What I'm slightly puzzled about is whether a swab test is required for arrivals from the UK. According to Coronavirus disease. Info about the current situation in Sicily | Visit Sicily
But what I think is the official guidance says that tests are required only for arrivals from a number of specific countries, of which the UK isn't one: see https://www.costruiresalute.it/?q=coronavirus-sicilia . Any recent reports would be appreciated!
all travellers coming from foreign countries will undergo to the rapid swab test directly upon their arrival in Sicily
But what I think is the official guidance says that tests are required only for arrivals from a number of specific countries, of which the UK isn't one: see https://www.costruiresalute.it/?q=coronavirus-sicilia . Any recent reports would be appreciated!
Oct 4, 2020, 1:42 am
#247
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There's no need for testing from the UK (yet). I was in Sicily a few weeks ago and all was OK.
By the way, word of caution for those of you wanting to visit NW Italy: conditions are particularly crappy right now, some areas have received amounts of rain unseen in more than a century; the Po river has risen 3 metres in a day and quite a few valleys in Piedmont, Lombardy and Val d'Aosta are cut off.
By the way, word of caution for those of you wanting to visit NW Italy: conditions are particularly crappy right now, some areas have received amounts of rain unseen in more than a century; the Po river has risen 3 metres in a day and quite a few valleys in Piedmont, Lombardy and Val d'Aosta are cut off.
Oct 4, 2020, 1:57 am
#248
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There's no need for testing from the UK (yet). I was in Sicily a few weeks ago and all was OK.
By the way, word of caution for those of you wanting to visit NW Italy: conditions are particularly crappy right now, some areas have received amounts of rain unseen in more than a century; the Po river has risen 3 metres in a day and quite a few valleys in Piedmont, Lombardy and Val d'Aosta are cut off.
By the way, word of caution for those of you wanting to visit NW Italy: conditions are particularly crappy right now, some areas have received amounts of rain unseen in more than a century; the Po river has risen 3 metres in a day and quite a few valleys in Piedmont, Lombardy and Val d'Aosta are cut off.