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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fr.stephen" data-source="post: 2321889" data-attributes="member: 55351">Well I am glad to report I am back home, now doing my 72 hours home quarantine.I'm not assuming the saga is over though, there is so much COVID going around in Europe that the chances of there being a positive on the plane, or even worst case contracting it are very real. So lets hope and pray the 72 hours is all it ends up being.I would certainly not recommend people travel overseas at the moment for fun. If you have a real need to go, go, but flexibility in your plans will definitely be needed.I am glad to hear that Aussie vaccines are now recognised in the UK for purposes of isolation, however as Telemachus notes, if Omicron is suspected, you have to isolate anyway.The ATD form is clunky and I'm not sure if anyone actually knows what it is for or how to apply it.I had it crash on me several times.And, it asks (very last question) Are you a close contact of a positive case within the last 14 days.Remember you are supposed to complete the ATD no less than 72 hours before travel.So in my case, even though I had completed the 10 day isolation, I was still within the 14 days and hence had a RED ATD.If I wanted a green ATD it would have to be 14 + 3 = 17days after exposure.I rang Qantas and made sure they were happy for me to travel, and they made a note on my booking stating I had been cleared to travel.When I checked in at the airport I just "happened" to have the screen scrolled down so the RED bit wasn't visible. (Just to save having to tell the story AGAIN)All they checked was that I had an ATD. No questions at check in.I got my first ever point upgrade to Business on the Kangaroo route, which was nice!(I did get an unsolicited upgrade to Premium back in 2019 from SIN to LHR - it was the first revenue flight of the first upgraded A380 back in service - my tray table was missing the wooden top cover!)Anyway, coming through immigration, they obviously had a flag in their system.The agent said their system was saying I'm not vaccinated, which is not true.I had to fill a form out, and show her my vaccination certificate, and the ATD.She noted that the ATD was red, and got her supervisor.I held my breath.The supervisor had a clipboard which she looked at (names, perhaps), then the first lady came back and said "you're good to go"So off I went to the baggage hall to discover the baggage belt had decided to stop.Fortunately, as I was in J my bags were on the belt, so off I go, and home by 20:05.</blockquote>

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