Flying from Uk
Jayne
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Hello Augie,
I am not sure if you can answer this but I have been told by a lady that landed at Thessaloniki airport that ALL passengers on the UK flight were given a COVID test. Does this mean that if one person tests positive on the flight, then the whole set of passengers have to isolate for 10 days. We were going to travel with Tui to kavala on the 1st Aug but that flight has been cancelled and so I am not sure whether it would be practical to travel, although believe me we want to visit Thassos.
Regards Jayne
I am not sure if you can answer this but I have been told by a lady that landed at Thessaloniki airport that ALL passengers on the UK flight were given a COVID test. Does this mean that if one person tests positive on the flight, then the whole set of passengers have to isolate for 10 days. We were going to travel with Tui to kavala on the 1st Aug but that flight has been cancelled and so I am not sure whether it would be practical to travel, although believe me we want to visit Thassos.
Regards Jayne
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No, the whole set of passengers would not have to isolate for 10 days. They would all need to be tested and those who are positive would need to isolate.
Do you know if somebody tested positive on that flight? I don't see how they could, to be honest, since passengers are required to be vaccinated or have a recent negative test before they are allowed on board.
Greece conducts random testing at the country's airports and points of entry. The airline should have explained this to the lady and if they didn't then I can see why you are asking this question.
I believe that since Briton has a high caseload of the Delta variant, Greece is providing free rapid tests to passengers upon their arrival just to be sure. They're doing their best to accept tourists and allow travel while keeping Greece a safe destination.
Are you thinking to fly to Thessaloniki since the Kavala flight was canceled?
Yes as we can’t get to Kavala we were going to try Thessaloniki but we’re concerned that the return flight might get cancelled whilst we were on holiday.
We have booked a number of flights before this which have been cancelled in the meantime.
Many thanks Jayne
I was just reading the Greek government advice and it does say
“ You should also be aware that if other passengers on your flight, bus, train or ferry later test positive, you may be subject to further quarantine/self isolation requirements. These will be mandatory and you should comply with the Greek authorities’ requirements.”
It makes you wonder if that would actually happen? Hopefully not.
Best regards
Jayne
How did you find out that your flight with Tui on 1st August was cancelled? We are also due to fly with them to Kavala on that date and haven’t heard anything???
We are due to fly from Birmingham - is that where you were flying from?
They emailed to say it was cancelled but the next day you could still book the flight.
I called Tui and they said it was cancelled and would be reviewed to see if the 8th aug would go ahead. They told me that Birmingham and Gatwick flights to kavala had also been cancelled for this date.
My daughter was travelling to Birmingham on this date and she received an email too.
If it helps I think Ryanair fly to Thessaloniki on a Sunday?
Regards
Jayne
Up until yesterday Tui were still booking for our flight from Birmingham to Kavala on 01/08 but now that no longer seems to be available.
https://community.go-thassos.gr/discussion/614/new-thassos-airport-shuttle
We are both fully vaccinated and our experience is for flying from Manchester to Thessaloniki with Ryanair. Other routes/vaccination statuses may vary
At Manchester there was a desk before bag drop where our paperwork was checked. Required was the Greek Passenger Locator Form (you apply - 1 form to be filled out per household - receive a confirmation email immediately but then the QR code/form does not arrive until midnight of the day of travel) and our vaccination letter (applied for this via the NHS app- not the nhs covid app). They stamped our boarding pass with DOCS-OK. I had our letter and boarding pass printed and just the PLF on my phone as I thought it was easier for them to check, rather than scrolling through my phone for the different documents.
At Thessaloniki after passport control there were several desks that did the same check. From landing to getting our luggage we were out within 20 minutes. I didn't see anyone get tested but as we were out of the airport so quickly it could have happened.
We had a pre booked taxi to Keramoti.
When we bought our ferry tickets they gave us a very simple form to fill out, but were waved onto the ferry before we had time to fill it out and no one asked for it or checked our paperwork etc.
Going home we'll use the links on here to arrange our pre departure test. Our day 2 PCR test for home is already booked with one of the government approved providers and we have the code, which I understand will be needed to fill out the UK PLF, done 48 hours before leaving Greece
Everything here is beautiful as usual and I feel very safe.
We are still hoping to be travelling to Thassos on Sunday, as we’ve swapped our flights from the cancelled Birmingham one to a flight from Gatwick.
Just keeping everything crossed now that this one isn’t cancelled by Tui as well.😩
The latest drama has been a call from Tui at 11am yesterday to say that our holiday is cancelled again as the hotel has overbooked the rooms and has none for us. We were supposed to be flying on Sunday.😩
I had a chat with the hotel owners but they just couldn’t fit us in. The thing is I really don’t blame the hotel at all as they’ve also been treated terribly by Tui - they’ve been chasing Tui for weeks trying to confirm that the bookings were going ahead but Tui wouldn’t confirm even up to a few days ago. Being a really small hotel they had no choice but to cancel Tui’s allocation and rebook the rooms separately.
Anyway, after a mad few hours we’ve managed to find another hotel on the island that we’ve swapped our booking to so we’ll hopefully get to experience a new part of Thassos instead.
I’m completely on edge now, worrying that they’re still going to cancel us at the last minute but keeping everything crossed that we finally get our holiday!
I’ll be sure to let you all know how things pan out.🙂
We booked into the Socrates Plaza hotel as a last minute booking and we really couldn’t be more happy. What a jem of a hotel - beautiful setting and wonderful staff!!!
Hope everyone else gets their planned holidays this year - we’re already talking about returning to the island in 2022.