KARFA

Mexico official stats have never been remotely accurate. A positivity rate of just over 40% (2nd highest in the world) should immediately demonstrate that the official figures misrepresent the situation by a massive margin. Like others I am just surprised it has taken so long for this downgrade.

cauchy

In fairness, the UK reached a positive rate of over 40% during the first wave. It's not unreasonable to largely restrict PCR testing to cases where the result is needed for a clinical decision. The statistics don't necessarily misrepresent the situation - the statistics just can't be directly compared to the UK statistics, because they arise in a different clinical context and they measure different things.

In July, an average of 3 Mexico arrivals per day have tested positive for Covid. Given we have 30k reported domestic cases, it is really, really hard to see how 3 cases in home quarantine pose a threat.

Source --> https://www.gov.uk/government/public...s-15-july-2021

TPJ

No - Mexico does not have any COVID-related requirements. No vaccine, PCR test etc. In CUN (not sure about MEX) nobody is even checking https://www.vuelaseguro.com forms.

TomMM

Might not be required but might be prudent to be vaccinated.

reclusive46

Let's be honest it has nothing to with vaccines. For some reason, the UK really doesn't want to put Canada on its green list. Even last summer there were periods of time were Canada was at a case load below any country in Europe and it never made it onto the green list. I've just come to the conclusion that if I had to go to the UK for something important, I just wouldn't quarantine, I'm fully vaccinated with Moderna vaccines from the same factory the UK has used in Wales and Scotland and they can fine me all they want (they can issue me one for every day if they like), but good luck ever getting the money (pretty difficult to collect from someone who doesn't live in the country).

Olly-

More to the point it's ridiculous that they are waiving the quarantine requirement for people vaccinated in the USA but not Canada?! It's totally arbitrary at this point.

13901

Edit already discussed.

BrianDromey

I agree to a point - but the government doesn�t seem to be comparing Red/Amber/Green against the U.K. situation. They are, supposedly, using a series of entirely robust and consistently applied risk assessments to categorise countries. Some of these risks are political, no doubt. Ireland has never been under any travel restriction while France has been on and off a few lists for very short periods of time. Often around holiday time�

Clearly an opaque situation is preferred right now. Leading to anomalies like Canada, Pakistan and so forth. It really doesn�t help when ministers shout to every news channel, travel blog and paper that people can �holiday without looking over their shoulder�. That�s untrue, irresponsible and only applied to vaccinated adults.

We know the news on Saturday morning will be full of woe about holidays in Mexico ruined �. such is travel in a pandemic. Disruption and uncertainty are part of the deal and should
be expected. What do people expect?

binman

Agreed pretty shameful and it didn't work like that for India when Johnson's fantasy global Britain jaunt meant the border stayed open while our screens were filled with hospital chaos and funeral pyres. It was then announced on the 19th April and border closed from 4 am on the 23rd.

I am mystified as to how 10 days in the Aerial could possible costs almost �4000 for a couple when test are added.

It is also notable that Government ministers can fly the globe with utter impunity with Sharma having done more that 30 overseas trips in 7 months, many to red list countries.

It must surely be cheaper for people to stay put in Mexico for 14 days and then return via the USA. I'd rather do 10 days in a cheap hotel with a pool

LancashireFlyer

Version 1 of our summer holidays (incidentally this should have been week 2 of 2) was Mexico. But when we were looking at the countries COVID stats earlier in the year, and reading forum reviews from the Riviera Maya, it was clear that the Mexican authorities were under reporting cases. We were sure that Mexico would be popped into the red category when the UK government was going to reopen international travel. It stayed Amber, but we were worried.

So taking advantage of the BA BWC, we changed destination to the Dominican Republic - Amber at the time. We had a go/no go decision of the end of July to cancel it for a voucher. We opted to do this, and rebook for Turks and Caicos for May 22. Then a week later the DR turned onto the red list! Reasons behind this was it would cost us over �800 on tests for a family of 4, and my wife just wasn't comfortable with all the challenges this brought.

I have sympathy to those in Mexico looking at paying extra to leave before the deadline, or looking at 14 days state quarantine, but I'm thankful we were looking at the 'what if' scenario. It was a risk too much for us to take!

lcylocal

Additional services ca be found in this PDF (sorry not easy to quote from as it is a table):

https://www.britishairways.com/asset...e-05.08.21.pdf

This is now policy, including for green to amber moves: https://www.britishairways.com/asset...ce-gds-faq.pdf

Maybe this latter policy should be flagged up in one of the main threads/wikis?

Good luck to anyone in Mexico trying to get back.

JTXC

I was hoping that BA would add more flights to Germany. Doing YYZ-LHR-BER in two weeks, with an eight-hour layover. Ugh.

TTmex

No, no entry requriements other than the locator form.

TTmex

The figures here are nonsense. Do not trust any official channels. They have already shown that the gov is manipulating public records to ensure the real extent (probably 800k plus deaths) is being hidden.

sammyg901

BA have reduced the remaining seats on the last flight to US$360 now they've accommodated all their customers who wanted/needed to get back early

https://mol.im/a/9869539

Excellent effort by BA at a considerable cost to position in 4x widebodies and get everyone back in time