Fly me to the Moon - your 3rd travel Megathread - read OP

As a balance to a government advisory group's anti-travel media announcements with accompanying dodgy data, heres the ECDC travel map which shows a lot of green across the continent.

Had my second Pfizer back in May, still no cert. My siblings who got j&j less than two weeks ago have theirs. This is irritating. Thankfully I have no more flights booked til August!

The father is flying in from the UK tonight, will report on how that goes with his DCC

Certs for both myself and my husband arrived in the post this morning. So all good now.

1800 851 504

Wonder what hours they work. It's not even ringing.

Is it true that flying into IReland from today kids under 12 don't need a PCR ?

Flying in from Spain next month and both parents fully vaccinificated, 2 kids 5,9.

From what I hear kids under 12 don't need the pcr, they used to from 7 ... not sure because Spain is double double red at this stage...

Just FYI

Travelled from Malaga to Dublin last week. We had already checked in online but went to check in as Aer lingus now have the same sh*t carry on baggage rules as Ryanair. At check in PCR's etc were checked. Later at the gate we sailed through onto the aircraft while those had had not had their documents checked had to wait. So if you have the time and there's not much of a queue you may as well go to checkin as they are going to take your bags for the hold anyway.

On a seperate note I travelled from Prague to Malaga about 10 days ago. Was prep'd and ready with tests , letter from work and a few other reasons for justifing my travel. The only thing that was checked was my passport at Prague. In Malaga just sailed out. I had forgotten how easy schengen makes travel. I also reminded me how conditioned and brow beaten we have become listening to the narrative in Ireland. Good luck to all those travelling ye picked the wrong week but have a ball.

Was there this morning and fortunately added fast track only when driving to the airport to make sure I could have a pint of Guinness before the flight

Sorry don't know what went wrong with that post I didnt' mean to make and new system means I can't delete.

Happy hols everyone.

I'd take that 1 in 10 figure with a huge pinch of salt. As usual we are not giving the details as it might not suit the narrative. The narrative now is to put everyone off international travel and try put pressure on Government to put some more restrictions on it in place. Is that 1 in 10 directly from travel or is it including the people who subsequently test positive as close contact of positive case? How far are they going back to attribute it to foreign travel as the cause?

The aul cases are flying in Malta now and its back on the red list, although this doesn't seem to make any practical difference with the new travel rules.

On the plus side only 1 person in ICU so I guess this shows vaccines work.