Traveling to Finland
Jan 26, 2022, 11:38 pm
#766
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@FFlash sounds like a horrendous experience. What is the setup now? Is there a specific lane for (international) connections as well?
Jan 27, 2022, 12:44 am
#767
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LOL. The second question is none of his business. The third question is plain stupid. Well, as of next Tuesday, they will be no more. I'm so glad Krista is out of the game. Did you notice how quickly everything changed? Mika Salminen was interviewed today by Susanne Päivärinta, and he spoke freely and honestly about so many things. Sanna on Krista's first day of sick leave tweeting about opening society. Etc.
Now 3:rd shot already in practice needed in Denmark and Deutschland, and it seems we in EU get the pressure all over to comply with the same so I took 3rd shot. Otherwise wouldnt. Interesting to see scientific criticism grow towards these vaccines being useless.
Well I am not against vaccines per se, but seeing how these wetshots have been developed in hurry to earn money for multiconglomerates, people careying the risk of consequences, makes me sad.
This was probably OMNI but oh well.
Jan 27, 2022, 12:45 am
#768
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(but I think they see POB, so no rocket science)
Jan 27, 2022, 12:48 am
#769
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Yes, there's a whole thread on the subject. I had to take so many vaccinations over the years, that give or take one doesn't matter. OTOH with 3 shots, both I and RW jr went through infection symptomless, so for us it worked.
Cannot be told. There was a piece of news that the travel theatre would stop at the beginning of Feb, but nothing morenafter that. The gov't is now talking (or about to talk) lifting more restrictions earlier than the mid-Feb date previously discussed.
Cannot be told. There was a piece of news that the travel theatre would stop at the beginning of Feb, but nothing morenafter that. The gov't is now talking (or about to talk) lifting more restrictions earlier than the mid-Feb date previously discussed.
Jan 27, 2022, 4:50 am
#770
Join Date: Sep 2005
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@FFlash sounds like a horrendous experience. What is the setup now? Is there a specific lane for (international) connections as well?
Jan 27, 2022, 5:14 am
#771
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Jan 27, 2022, 5:38 am
#772
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Basically, they don't check your ID if you have a bp for a flight outside Finland from gates 5-20, so only somewhat stupid. Well, at least I wasn't checked.
Jan 27, 2022, 6:44 am
#773
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I know. But what happens if your flight departs from low numbered gates but you arrive at the 30ish area? You still have to go through the circus to show boarding pass to access the „safe area“ (gate 1-20) and last time I was there there were huge queues, which one could bypass though as connecting pax. Or has that changed again?
Jan 27, 2022, 7:02 am
#774
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Finland
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Schengen control ends 1st Feb 2022: https://intermin.fi/en/-/internal-bo...il-14-february
Jan 27, 2022, 7:23 am
#776
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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Jan 27, 2022, 7:25 am
#777
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To me the sentence is ambiguous.
This can be read as:
from [outside the EU and Schengen] or
as from [outside the EU] and [Schengen].
Negative test result required from people arriving from outside the EU and the Schengen area
from [outside the EU and Schengen] or
as from [outside the EU] and [Schengen].
Jan 27, 2022, 8:39 am
#778
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Jan 27, 2022, 8:46 am
#779
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I wonder how they handle non-Schengen EU entries in practice. The (few) concerned passengers will pour into the same area as non-EU non-Schengen entrants from security-cleared countries like the UK, no?
Jan 27, 2022, 8:58 am
#780
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There are no direct non-Schengen EU (RO, BG, HR, IE) flights AFAIK. Or is there DUB-HEL?