Mar 22, 2020, 4:26 am
Last edit by: FlyinHawaiian
Comprehensive Overview, With Questions and Answers:
https://www.gohawaii.com/travel-requirements
CURRENT POLICIES
List of Hotels that are currently closed:
https://www.gohawaii.com/special-alerts-information
For interisland travel:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hawaii/2041823-interisland-travel-unrestricted-starting-june-15th.html
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https://www.gohawaii.com/travel-requirements
CURRENT POLICIES
- JULY 8 - Fully vaccinated U.S. travelers flying domestically — including island residents returning home — will be allowed to bypass Hawaii’s quarantine and pre-travel restrictions, as long as they upload their vaccination records to the state’s Safe Travels website and arrive with a hard copy of their vaccinations records. https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hawaii/2044877-those-fully-vaccinated-anywhere-us-eligible-bypass-quarantine-july-8th-new-post.html
- JUNE 15 - Fully vaccinated travelers who received the vaccine in Hawaii are now exempt from Safe Travels
- JUNE 15 - Regardless of their vaccination status, travelers are allowed to fly between islands without having to take a COVID test or quarantine.
- AFTER JANUARY 3, 2022 The mandatory 5-day quarantine is required for all unvaccinated passengers (visitors and returning residents) arriving into the state of Hawaii.
- Additionally, operations, including peer-to-peer platforms or sharing services, may not rent vehicles to any person who is subject to a 5-day traveler quarantine order unless an exemption is granted.
- Travelers flying into Hawaii are required to register personal information into the Safe Travels application; the information will be used to aid officials in contacting travelers via phone, email, and SMS. It does *not* currently enable GPS-tracking of travelers via their mobile devices.
- Travelers are exempt from the mandatory 5-day quarantine if testing is completed no more than 72 hours before the departure time of the final leg of your flight to Hawai‘i with proof of a negative result.
- The state of Hawai‘i will ONLY accept Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) from a certified Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) lab test results from TRUSTED TESTING AND TRAVEL PARTNERS. A negative COVID-19 test result is required prior to departure to avoid quarantine in Hawai‘i.
- If results are not available by time of arrival, quarantine necessary until test results received.
- All travelers (returning residents and visitors) of all ages subject to pre-test requirement.
- Individuals are responsible for testing costs.
- Travelers (returning residents and visitors) are not able to test upon arrival in Hawaii because this is a pre-travel testing program.
- No commercial COVID-19 NAAT testing will be provided upon arrival at the airport. Travelers without the pre-test will be in quarantine.
- https://hawaiicovid19.com/travel-partners/
List of Hotels that are currently closed:
https://www.gohawaii.com/special-alerts-information
For interisland travel:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hawaii/2041823-interisland-travel-unrestricted-starting-june-15th.html
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State of Hawaii "Safe Travels" Program 5-Day Quarantine (Ends March 25, 2022)
Apr 4, 2021, 6:49 pm
#1831
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Upcountry Maui, HI
Posts: 13,311
I believe that's true, and sorry, I don't recall exactly where I saw or read it.
Ige is preoccupied on the verification issue, which frankly, IMO, is never going to be solved. Creating an app is easy, but verifying the data is the trillion dollar problem for the masses that didn't get vaccinated at nationwide chains.
-David
Ige is preoccupied on the verification issue, which frankly, IMO, is never going to be solved. Creating an app is easy, but verifying the data is the trillion dollar problem for the masses that didn't get vaccinated at nationwide chains.
-David
Apr 4, 2021, 6:54 pm
#1832
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Programs: DL, UA, AA, VS
Posts: 5,226
What weren't they worried about forged test results?
Apr 5, 2021, 5:10 am
#1833
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: IAD
Programs: UA 1K & 2MM, MR Titanium
Posts: 459
I would imagine with testing, they would have a way to verify, if they wanted to, that individuals were getting the test from the approved providers (albeit probably not real time). With vaccines, there is currently no way to do the same, I believe.
Apr 5, 2021, 5:09 pm
#1834
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Can you enter Hawaii through LIH, then fly to HNL and then return from HNL back to SFO?
Or is there any requirement to go through HNL first?
Maybe faster processing of verifying negative tests through HNL than smaller airports on other islands?
Or is there any requirement to go through HNL first?
Maybe faster processing of verifying negative tests through HNL than smaller airports on other islands?
Apr 5, 2021, 5:29 pm
#1835
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Hawai'i Nei
Programs: Au: UA, Marriott, Hilton; GE
Posts: 7,145
You can enter Hawaii through LIH, OGG, HNL, ITO, KOA. That is, any of the airports that (at one time or another) serve domestic or international routes.
Apr 5, 2021, 8:19 pm
#1836
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What about interisland travel?
Are there different rules for going from LIH to HNL vs. vice versa?
Would I need another negative test going either way, after spending say 5 nights on either Kauai or Oahu first?
Are there different rules for going from LIH to HNL vs. vice versa?
Would I need another negative test going either way, after spending say 5 nights on either Kauai or Oahu first?
Apr 5, 2021, 8:27 pm
#1837
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: YVR, HNL
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No test is needed to fly interisland LIH-HNL after your 5 night stay. A test would be required to fly HNL-LIH.
Apr 5, 2021, 9:17 pm
#1839
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Upcountry Maui, HI
Posts: 13,311
Ige Calls For Patience On Travel Restrictions, Vaccine Passports
https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/04/ig...ine-passports/
Apr 5, 2021, 9:33 pm
#1840
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: New York / Hawaii
Programs: UA Global Services, HH Diamond
Posts: 5,178
Governor's Update
Governor Ige met with his COVID advisors, got an update on travel vaccine passports, and took questions from the media today. Some highlights:
-As I mentioned a few posts ago, he outright denied Maui's request to use vaccine passports. Counties will need to continue to use the Safe Travels platform and they can't use other platforms/solutions.
-The state is testing CLEAR and COMMONPASS as platforms that would tie into Safe Travels. Basically you get that platform to verify your test credentials and then that platform gives you a code you'd enter into Safe Travels to "connect" the two. It's possible this could work for pre-travel tests as soon as this summer.
-Ige reiterated the White House isn't interested in a national vaccine database/passport. As such, they'd likely only work with CLEAR and COMMONPASS for verifying vaccine information in the future. No timing on when that would happen. Unlikely before summer travel season.
-Hawaii focused on getting shots in arms moreso than data in computers. As such, Ige said vaccination data beyond quantitative counts the feds require, is not yet in any system. Providers may be logging vaccine data here/there, but shockingly there's no standard data capture happening here yet. Ige said the providers doing the vaccines could get such data into systems over time.
-The white vaccine cards won't be acceptable to bypass quarantine for now.
-Because of the lack of vaccination data in the state and the unwillingess to accept the white cards, there's no way to safely allow for interisland travel among residents let alone non-residents who have their own data verification issues.
-Because of these challenges, there are no changes to the interisland travel rules although the governor hopes there could be something new in place by July 4.
-And there are no changes to any of Hawaii's travel rules, even with the new CDC guidance for now.
-Ige welcomes the islands to do second tests upon arrival of passengers like the Big Island is doing, but they aren't allowed to have passengers pay for that 2nd test nor can they rely on the state to pay.
-Due to increase in COVID case counts, Oahu could trigger additional lockdown measures on Wednesday. But the onus is on the new mayor to deal with that and Ige hopes nothing will happen to disrupt the rebounding economy.
-As I mentioned a few posts ago, he outright denied Maui's request to use vaccine passports. Counties will need to continue to use the Safe Travels platform and they can't use other platforms/solutions.
-The state is testing CLEAR and COMMONPASS as platforms that would tie into Safe Travels. Basically you get that platform to verify your test credentials and then that platform gives you a code you'd enter into Safe Travels to "connect" the two. It's possible this could work for pre-travel tests as soon as this summer.
-Ige reiterated the White House isn't interested in a national vaccine database/passport. As such, they'd likely only work with CLEAR and COMMONPASS for verifying vaccine information in the future. No timing on when that would happen. Unlikely before summer travel season.
-Hawaii focused on getting shots in arms moreso than data in computers. As such, Ige said vaccination data beyond quantitative counts the feds require, is not yet in any system. Providers may be logging vaccine data here/there, but shockingly there's no standard data capture happening here yet. Ige said the providers doing the vaccines could get such data into systems over time.
-The white vaccine cards won't be acceptable to bypass quarantine for now.
-Because of the lack of vaccination data in the state and the unwillingess to accept the white cards, there's no way to safely allow for interisland travel among residents let alone non-residents who have their own data verification issues.
-Because of these challenges, there are no changes to the interisland travel rules although the governor hopes there could be something new in place by July 4.
-And there are no changes to any of Hawaii's travel rules, even with the new CDC guidance for now.
-Ige welcomes the islands to do second tests upon arrival of passengers like the Big Island is doing, but they aren't allowed to have passengers pay for that 2nd test nor can they rely on the state to pay.
-Due to increase in COVID case counts, Oahu could trigger additional lockdown measures on Wednesday. But the onus is on the new mayor to deal with that and Ige hopes nothing will happen to disrupt the rebounding economy.
Apr 5, 2021, 9:38 pm
#1841
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: New York / Hawaii
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Posts: 5,178
Ige Calls For Patience On Travel Restrictions, Vaccine Passports
https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/04/ig...ine-passports/
Apr 5, 2021, 10:56 pm
#1843
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What was frustrating to reporters today, and I imagine for everyone, is the info he shared this afternoon is in conflict with what he said earlier in the Spotlight program. So I'm not sure if his subsequent advisory meeting led him to be much more conservative with timing/etc. this afternoon.
Apr 6, 2021, 7:54 pm
#1845
Join Date: Jun 2020
Posts: 123
Which airport? Our flight will be PHL-IAH-HNL with UA. Will the pre-clearance wristband on PHL or IAH?