AUH Quarantine to end July 1
May 16, 2021, 5:59 am
#1
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AUH Quarantine to end July 1
https://www.thenationalnews.com/busi...says-1.1223667
could be good for higher frequencies to return and hopefully the F lounge to reopen... Im still wondering if we will see midfield transition prior to Expo with EY and its 2x LCC plays moving in or EY and full service carriers and LCC operating from the T3 and T1..
could be good for higher frequencies to return and hopefully the F lounge to reopen... Im still wondering if we will see midfield transition prior to Expo with EY and its 2x LCC plays moving in or EY and full service carriers and LCC operating from the T3 and T1..
May 19, 2021, 11:31 am
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Hopefully soon allowing travel to and from the UK as well
Hopefully soon allowing travel to and from the UK as well
May 23, 2021, 6:23 am
#4
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Follow up question: My family is landing in AUH first week of July with 7+ hour layover on the way to MLE. With the lifting of restrictions do you think we could leave the airport for a few hours to grab dinner and take a look around? I am open to suggestions/comments up to and including calling me an idiot for considering it. We are flying biz on Etihad. Thanks!
May 23, 2021, 7:33 am
#5
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Hi Los_Pepes,
This is only conjecture as the final travel protocols haven't been announced. I expect Abu Dhabi will replace quarantine with asking visitors to remain at home/in their hotel room until they receive the results of a test-on-arrival. Results are super quick these days, but maybe not quick enough for dinner on a 7-hr layover!
This is only conjecture as the final travel protocols haven't been announced. I expect Abu Dhabi will replace quarantine with asking visitors to remain at home/in their hotel room until they receive the results of a test-on-arrival. Results are super quick these days, but maybe not quick enough for dinner on a 7-hr layover!
May 23, 2021, 3:00 pm
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May 23, 2021, 5:20 pm
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Hi Los_Pepes,
This is only conjecture as the final travel protocols haven't been announced. I expect Abu Dhabi will replace quarantine with asking visitors to remain at home/in their hotel room until they receive the results of a test-on-arrival. Results are super quick these days, but maybe not quick enough for dinner on a 7-hr layover!
This is only conjecture as the final travel protocols haven't been announced. I expect Abu Dhabi will replace quarantine with asking visitors to remain at home/in their hotel room until they receive the results of a test-on-arrival. Results are super quick these days, but maybe not quick enough for dinner on a 7-hr layover!
May 24, 2021, 1:43 am
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Hopefully soon allowing travel to and from the UK as well
Hopefully soon allowing travel to and from the UK as well
May 24, 2021, 3:49 am
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What surprised me is that though the UAE is not allowed direct flights, nor is Oman or Qatar because they are also Transit points....
There are direct flights from India Pakistan and Bangladesh as the direct flight ban wasn't imposed on them
So who's transit through the UAE are they actually worried about so as to ban the flights even if it does stay on the red list ?
LHR opening Terminal 4 to receive Red flights on June 1st allegedly
There are direct flights from India Pakistan and Bangladesh as the direct flight ban wasn't imposed on them
So who's transit through the UAE are they actually worried about so as to ban the flights even if it does stay on the red list ?
LHR opening Terminal 4 to receive Red flights on June 1st allegedly
Last edited by Dogmatick; May 24, 2021 at 4:20 am
May 24, 2021, 4:22 am
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Well I very much doubt it will happen this year, but depends on your definition of "soon". If they could somehow stop all transit passengers mixing with each other then it would be more likely, but putting in new systems could take a long time, if it's even possible.
May 27, 2021, 8:13 am
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Has there been any indication that the end of the AUH Quarantine will also remove the PCR test requirement for transit passengers? In a few of the news releases it indicated that the goal was to more closely align the policies of AUH with DXB - where I don't believe a PCR test is a transit requirement for many origin countries - so wasn't sure if plans for EY had been announced/rumored. We are thinking of flying MLE-AUH-JFK in mid August but the PCR test requirement for AUH transit would be difficult to obtain in Maldives. Thanks for any insights.
Jun 1, 2021, 12:41 pm
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What surprised me is that though the UAE is not allowed direct flights, nor is Oman or Qatar because they are also Transit points....
There are direct flights from India Pakistan and Bangladesh as the direct flight ban wasn't imposed on them
So who's transit through the UAE are they actually worried about so as to ban the flights even if it does stay on the red list ?
There are direct flights from India Pakistan and Bangladesh as the direct flight ban wasn't imposed on them
So who's transit through the UAE are they actually worried about so as to ban the flights even if it does stay on the red list ?