PCR Test Required to Fly to Canada
01-01-2021, 05:09 AM
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PCR Test Required to Fly to Canada
Welcome to 2021, the Canadian Govt has just decreed that you must have a negative PCR test if you are to fly to Canada.
Are there any other pilots out there that commute from Canada?
Is there an exemption for commuters?
Does anyone know who to contact, is there someone in ALPA that can help?
Does any one know where to get a cheap PCR test ($130 every few days is unsustainable).
Even timing the tests will be difficult.
Are there any other pilots out there that commute from Canada?
Is there an exemption for commuters?
Does anyone know who to contact, is there someone in ALPA that can help?
Does any one know where to get a cheap PCR test ($130 every few days is unsustainable).
Even timing the tests will be difficult.
01-01-2021, 05:40 AM
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Correct, Crew do not need it.
I am a commuter. I will need it. Not sure how this is going to work.
https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-c...to-canada.html
So the issues are endless.
What if you test positive? Then the airline bars you from travel, denying citizens from going to their own country.
How will the airline certify that its a real test? How will the Canadian Govt certify that the test is a real one?
What a joke.
Add to this that it must be a PCR test, which has a turn around of a few days.....BUT the test must be performed within 72hrs, Talk about cutting it fine.
I am a commuter. I will need it. Not sure how this is going to work.
https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-c...to-canada.html
So the issues are endless.
What if you test positive? Then the airline bars you from travel, denying citizens from going to their own country.
How will the airline certify that its a real test? How will the Canadian Govt certify that the test is a real one?
What a joke.
Add to this that it must be a PCR test, which has a turn around of a few days.....BUT the test must be performed within 72hrs, Talk about cutting it fine.
01-01-2021, 06:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Tom Bradys Cat
Correct, Crew do not need it.
I am a commuter. I will need it. Not sure how this is going to work.
https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-c...to-canada.html
So the issues are endless.
What if you test positive? Then the airline bars you from travel, denying citizens from going to their own country.
How will the airline certify that its a real test? How will the Canadian Govt certify that the test is a real one?
What a joke.
Add to this that it must be a PCR test, which has a turn around of a few days.....BUT the test must be performed within 72hrs, Talk about cutting it fine.
I am a commuter. I will need it. Not sure how this is going to work.
https://www.canada.ca/en/transport-c...to-canada.html
So the issues are endless.
What if you test positive? Then the airline bars you from travel, denying citizens from going to their own country.
How will the airline certify that its a real test? How will the Canadian Govt certify that the test is a real one?
What a joke.
Add to this that it must be a PCR test, which has a turn around of a few days.....BUT the test must be performed within 72hrs, Talk about cutting it fine.
01-01-2021, 06:37 AM
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Originally Posted by skywatch
And all the reasons PCR tests are practically meaningless anyway. The stupid is unceasing.
01-01-2021, 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by skywatch
And all the reasons PCR tests are practically meaningless anyway. The stupid is unceasing.
Or, for those preferring a video:
https://youtu.be/VuskwsIW02M
01-01-2021, 07:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Seneca Pilot
As I take in the news surrounding this virus I have to keep reminding myself that the survival rate is 99.78% and a huge percentage of the deaths have been of people beyond their average life span. As the dust settles in a couple of years I am guessing that the actual excess deaths will be flat to slightly up and well within normal distribution of error. One has to ask him/herself what the hell we are allowing to be done to us?
That metric would value the death of a 90 year old at his/her actuarial life expectancy of just under five years while valuing the death of a 16 year old at 65 and a half years, a recognition that nobody is going to live forever.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html
01-01-2021, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by BoilerUP
Even as a commuter...you are still aircrew.
Is Canada's exemption ONLY for *operating* crew?
Is Canada's exemption ONLY for *operating* crew?
A. Those exempted from this requirement include children who are not five years of age or older.
Other exemptions include:
a) a crew member or a person who seeks to enter Canada only to become such a crew member
b) Emergency service providers
c) Technical stops – flights refueling
So you need to be crew.
They can't even verify where you got the test, the validity of it or if the testing site is certified. Its complete theatre.
Is there anyone at the union that can help? Its loose and fast policy on the fly.
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