Have booked UA TPAC in late July/early August. Used miles so fully refundable as well as refundable hotels. We'll see if we're able to go. I had some hope earlier this month but with the curve not flattening who knows!

I also have an apartment in Beijing and have not seen it since end of Jan. I, too, have wonder about the contents in my fridge!:eek:

A few expat online communities that my colleagues have monitored and also (as you probably appreciate) speculations that can be overly negative or positive when there is anything related to China that is often lack of balanced reporting. Some of them can be based on perceptions rather than actual facts.....I can also say the same about perceptions of US by others. Some people can be quite high maintenance while others are opposite. I am in the low maintenance camp, so not really bothered by quarantine as long as it is clean.

I always count the blessing of having an international career and able to keep it in this current environment, so just eager to start business travels asap.

Where do you look to see these new schedules? Thanks
I noticed late June UA SFO-HKGvanished. What else vanished?
How are the wait times these days for reworking canceled itineraries?

Matthew's blog has a good summary of the latest flight schedule:

https://liveandletsfly.com/united-ju...onal-schedule/

In terms of wait time to rework on cancelled itineraries, I can only comment that there is no wait using GS line.

UA just axed the TPE flight for June. Will be making alternative plans...

How depressing. Not even SFO-LHR survived, let alone so many TPAC cuts

Can’t seem to find the answer. Since a lot of the nonstop TPAC flights have been axed, are passengers still allowed to transit in Narita (without entering Jalan) on the way to the USA? (Since that is what United is giving as the only option to still fly, which is ANA through Narita.)

According to the useful link provided below, it seems Japan still allows transit passengers if the information is up to date.

thanks... Japan seem to have the longest rules in the listing you provided. But it doesn’t really address transit. It just says cannot enter, which I guess can be interpreted as transit allowed. Maybe I should read it again. Thanks again.

Yup... they cancelled both of our flights. Our options for visiting the USA this summer would now be BR or CI, then connecting inward to UA. Probably not worth the hassle for us, and we'll likely skip the USA this year. Sad news!

I am looking at going to Seoul, Taipei and/or HK as soon as possible - but as soon as possible seems to look increasingly like Sept-Oct-Nov, which is OK, I don't like the summer heat in Asia anyway. Taiwan is unlikely to open its borders to foreigners anytime soon, especially with any re-infection waves, but Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong are about the 3 safest countries to be in right now, and frankly safer than our own.

:rolleyes: You are seriously going to trust a corporation to hold a detailed analysis of your blood? Your very DNA? They can't even keep your credit card data secure, and you're going to let them have your DNA? Go right ahead, but I am sure 9/10 people will flat out refuse, including me. I don't need to travel, I want to travel - and want does not include handing over my biological samples to a for-profit company that can't even serve my lunch properly half the time. No thanks. If they pull this off, the volume of non-essential travel will crater, permanently.

Plus, as pointed out multiple times for your reference, it does not show if someone has an active infection, and someone with antibodies explains essentially nothing about the risk of them sitting near me unless there is a test to detect the presence of virus particles.

I guess only people MUST travel would put up with 14-day government mandated quarantine.

It simply kills the purpose of sightseeing and vast majority of business travel. These would be like 95% of air traffic to China?

Even if China lifts the ban, I won't waste my 14 days at a hotel, no matter now nice it is.

I only hope that China would accept negative result of a Covid-19 test in another country and waive the quarantine requirement.

I think the link is fairly accurate and most complete AFAIK. The US information seems not 100% as it doesn't mention US-Canada restriction etc.

The good news is Japan and S. Korea transfer. I wish that HK and SIN would allow transit pax.

100% agree. Too bad the one place I can go with my fam is the UK, and they aren't looking a whole lot better than the USA these days.

Not quite how these things would work. There is a 15 minute test (Abbot) that can check for live virus. Toss it, along with the fun nose swab, in the biohazard bag when done. No need to track that with name, only the little card thingy. It's only going after the COVID to encourage growth. It's not doing anything with blood at all. Since I sneeze all the time, the my DNA is all over the airports, anyhow. A positive test = no get on airplane and free trip to quarantineland.

There is a pin prick test which can check for antibodies. THe hope (fading rapidly, sadly) is to see if folks are immune. I was hoping this would be similar to vaccination, but I'm losing hope over this given the reported accuracies so far. A positive test = free to fly (or, so I wish). Anyhow, this also doesn't do any details with blood, just a marker that says "yes/no" if the antibodys are positive

You can't have test #2 without test #1 -- since you don't want active folks as you say.

I would do this in a heartbeat. Sadly, you're probably gonna have to do it again when you get off the plane in a foreign country.

My question that you quoted about "negative impressions" was directed to UA_Flyer in the context of quarantine conditions in Chinese cities. He previously addressed his willingness to accept 14 days as a condition of being able to enter.

I don't have a strong opinion on whether or not countries should trust negative test results from other regions in order to facilitate opening up, but it wouldn't really matter if I did. That having been said, minimizing both the number of moving parts and inbound traffic seem to be fairly common objectives.

This is inaccurate. The 10 (so far) FDA emergency approved tests for covid antibodies are full blood draws. They have been found to be highly accurate in specificity and sensitivity. They are not quick read (yet). There are another 145 tests non FDA approved on the market of dubious accuracy some of which are pin prick.

And you can do the antibody test without the swab test first, but only reason to do so is if you have reason to believe you’ve had and recovered from covid or suspect you’ve had an asymptomatic case (currently estimated at 3%-25% of population depending on
location.)