 Poster: A snowHead
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| pineapplechunks10 wrote: |
Hello
Question regarding those who were able to get their doctor to sign the following document.
https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR40234210/II_222_2021_Anlage_4.pdf
Did you have to do anything else after. I'm a little confused. Did you just print it off and get the doctor to sign it? It mentions below at the bottom about getting it verified? Also mentions a doctors seal. Do we even have those in the UK? Any help would be greatly appreciate. |
I had to pay £40 to get them to sign it, but all that's required is they sign/date it and stamp it. I didn't actually have to use it though as I subsequently got a negative PCR.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@ousekjarr, in the German speaking world there is a rather naïve reliance on the power of a stamp. Every business from the tiniest one person outfit to the largest corporation has them. If you dont have a stamp on a document it is not "official". However you can simply go to any stationary shop (plenty on the internet) and get a stamp, no check on who you say you are. In this case if the form doesnt have a stamp it might be rejected, with a stamp, even from "Herr Doktor Professor M. Maus" it will be accepted without question 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anyone managed to fly to Austria under the new rules yet or are we all going this weekend?
Would be interesting to hear accounts!
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Austria COVID numbers are continuing to rise despite all the restrictions. But there has been a shift in demographics in the last 10 days or so. The age group with the most infections is the non-mask wearing, dirty bombs in the 5-14 years age group. Clearly a combination of unvaccinated minors, omicron infectiousness and the return to school after the holidays. The next group with highest infections are the 30-44 year olds, which if you think about it, makes perfect sense as they are the parents of said dirty bombs.
The good news is that the folks you are mostly likely to come in to contact with, on the slopes or in your hotels, all had it over Christmas and New Year!! Here in Flachau we are at less than 50% (150 vs 374) of the numbers we had 3 weeks ago and as I posted then, 60% of those were Ski Instructors and hospitality staff.
So, just double check your travel insurance to be on the safe side and get on down. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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My mate's son (18 ) (his age not name) has managed to get a booster appointment for 3 days before we go to Saalbach.
Just to clarify with everyone whose ear is close to the ground:
1. There's no issue with it being less than 120 days since his second jab. That's just for Austrian citizens?
2. There's no issue with the booster being so close to travel? The 14 day requirement has disappeared.
3. The booster should appear on his NHS app within 2 days?
4. What's the back up plan if it hasn't appeared on his NHS App?
We don't want to be the day before departure waiting for his app to update and panicking that he might need a PCR. Is that this situation we're likely to be in or is there another proof of booster?
Thanks all
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@TopGooner, correct on points 1-3. My booster appeared within 12 hours, but clearly that's dependent on batch submission times and processing delays.
For the backup plan, that would be a short turnaround PCR test to satisfy the entry requirements, and then once he's in he's OK as the 2 vaccination doses makes him 2G compliant.
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Does anybody think Austria may relax PCR on entry to lateral flow tests? Rules are gradually being relaxed around the world and studies suggest that travel testing is pointless. I'm guessing though, that Austria might be the last to fold, but trying to delay booking a PCR just in case
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@dedders, personally I think it's unlikely to change for a couple of weeks at least.
Depending on how you propose to do the PCR test you may be able to cancel at no cost, or for at home tests most of the providers are happy to swap from a PCR to a lateral flow on request - the cost to them of the test kit is minimal, compared to the cost of the lab time to process a PCR. Leaving it late may just mean that you have to travel further to a test centre with availability, or that you're struggling to get it done in time.
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| dedders wrote: |
| Does anybody think Austria may relax PCR on entry to lateral flow tests? Rules are gradually being relaxed around the world and studies suggest that travel testing is pointless. I'm guessing though, that Austria might be the last to fold, but trying to delay booking a PCR just in case |
Our hotel booked for Hinterglemm suggested this may happen but haven't been able to find any other evidence and I think it is perhaps just what Tirol & Salzburgerland etc are campaigning for against a hardening line in Vienna. Who knows?
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The requirement for negative PCR test to enter Austria only applies to people who have not had booster vaccinations. From next week the vaccination mandate starts in Austria, so it is possible that the entry test will be removed and entry will be denied to unvaccinated adults. But for children it is likely that the tests will remain.
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I hope not!. I am waiting on the NHS app so my grandson can enter as recovered
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Hi All
I’m still finding some of the info regarding teenagers confusing, as see a lot of contradiction within the page:-
https://www.austria.info/en/service-and-facts/coronavirus-information/entry-regulations#when-you-need-a-pcr-test
“When travelling to Austria, proof of double-vaccination/recovery is required as well as a negative Covid test or a booster jab.”
“When you need a PCR test:
2x vaccinated (or 1x with Johnson & Johnson), then recovered: no PCR test needed.”
“Entry without PCR test or booster jab:
You need to show proof of full vaccination/recovery.
Pre-travel-clearance registration is necessary.
You immediately have to self-isolate until you can show a negative PCR test (the test can be taken straight at the airport or at any other test site)”
Traveling out of 5th Feb with my 13yo son who is double jabbed and recently recovered. This should give him the 3 x QR codes in the NHS app from 3rd.
Am I right in thinking that he doesn’t need a PCR to enter, but without it, will need to isolate?
Letter from GP is unlikely, and was a brick wall when I tried to discuss with them…
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@chrisbooth0070, no, recovered and double jabbed - at any age - does not require a PCR to enter, nor does it require self isolation. The austria.info site was updated on the 24th to explicitly state that as an example.
The general principle is that recovery is equivalent to a booster.
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You know it makes sense.
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| ratechaser wrote: |
@chrisbooth0070, no, recovered and double jabbed - at any age - does not require a PCR to enter, nor does it require self isolation. The austria.info site was updated on the 24th to explicitly state that as an example.
The general principle is that recovery is equivalent to a booster. |
Thanks. Yeah was sure I had read that also, but re-reading it, was not so clear.
Here’s hoping that the teenagers can actually see in the app when they are supposed to be able to. The requested cert does not show recovery on it.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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A colleague has just flagged to me that the required interval between the second dose and third/booster has been reduced to 90 days from 120 days (further up this long thead some have been concerned that they have got the booster before 120 days). Also the validity of a two dose vaccination has been reduced to 180 days, with the validity of three vacciantions remaining at 270 days.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@ptex, regarding entry to Austria, there are no checks on the time between 2nd and 3rd vaccination. The only check that is made is that the 3rd jab has been administered.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Cacciatore, didn't you make some sort of bet on when that question was next going to be asked?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Wendyjh & I are triple jabbed. We fly into Salzburg from Heathrow tomorrow en route to Kitzbuhel & don’t anticipate any problems. If we’re wrong, I’ll post. Otherwise we’ll be busy enjoying ourselves!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| Cacciatore wrote: |
| @ptex, regarding entry to Austria, there are no checks on the time between 2nd and 3rd vaccination. The only check that is made is that the 3rd jab has been administered. |
I was referring to the change in the booster interval timing, as has been referred to earlier in the thread and to the validity period.
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| ptex wrote: |
| Cacciatore wrote: |
| @ptex, regarding entry to Austria, there are no checks on the time between 2nd and 3rd vaccination. The only check that is made is that the 3rd jab has been administered. |
I was referring to the change in the booster interval timing, as has been referred to earlier in the thread and to the validity period. |
Yes, but it’s only relevant to Austrians and residents, not to tourists/travellers coming to Austria.
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| Gordyjh wrote: |
| @Wendyjh & I are triple jabbed. We fly into Salzburg from Heathrow tomorrow en route to Kitzbuhel & don’t anticipate any problems. If we’re wrong, I’ll post. Otherwise we’ll be busy enjoying ourselves! |
Good luck and have a great time
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| Cacciatore wrote: |
| Gordyjh wrote: |
| @Wendyjh & I are triple jabbed. We fly into Salzburg from Heathrow tomorrow en route to Kitzbuhel & don’t anticipate any problems. If we’re wrong, I’ll post. Otherwise we’ll be busy enjoying ourselves! |
Good luck and have a great time |
May be too much snow? Up to 1m being forecast over 3 days early next week. Austria seems to be where it’s at this year
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Absolute shocker
Still at Heathrow as BA will not let us on without a Covid test even though it’s not required
Had to do a lamp test at the airport and now waiting for result and see if we can get in later flight
Never fly BA
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Oh no!!!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Jeeez! Where are you flying to? Hope you get it sorted!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Gordyjh wrote: |
| @Wendyjh & I are triple jabbed. We fly into Salzburg from Heathrow tomorrow en route to Kitzbuhel & don’t anticipate any problems. If we’re wrong, I’ll post. Otherwise we’ll be busy enjoying ourselves! |
Just been through salzburg Airport absolutely simple, passport control fully open, then army checking covid status .I used the Austrian grüner pass app, but the NHS one is fine too. No bother at all.
FFP2 masks rigidly required, tui handed them out on the plane before landing.
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| Cacciatore wrote: |
| ptex wrote: |
| Cacciatore wrote: |
| @ptex, regarding entry to Austria, there are no checks on the time between 2nd and 3rd vaccination. The only check that is made is that the 3rd jab has been administered. |
I was referring to the change in the booster interval timing, as has been referred to earlier in the thread and to the validity period. |
Yes, but it’s only relevant to Austrians and residents, not to tourists/travellers coming to Austria. |
The Updated FCDO guidance doesn’t seem to reflect that this applies only to residents:
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/austria/entry-requirements
Airlines tend to follow what’s on FCDO. Confusing 
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You know it makes sense.
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| Mountaindoc wrote: |
| Cacciatore wrote: |
| ptex wrote: |
| Cacciatore wrote: |
| @ptex, regarding entry to Austria, there are no checks on the time between 2nd and 3rd vaccination. The only check that is made is that the 3rd jab has been administered. |
I was referring to the change in the booster interval timing, as has been referred to earlier in the thread and to the validity period. |
Yes, but it’s only relevant to Austrians and residents, not to tourists/travellers coming to Austria. |
The Updated FCDO guidance doesn’t seem to reflect that this applies only to residents:
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/austria/entry-requirements
Airlines tend to follow what’s on FCDO. Confusing |
Tui did seem to be checking this at check in at Glasgow but nothing was said.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Can't be correct, surely, they could demand an ffp2 mask as that's a requirement from austria when in their territory, has anyone else had this problem ?
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Poster: A snowHead
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They have now seen the error of their ways and we are now through but obviously missed our original flight. Still paid the £340 for the tests which I’m going to claim back
At least we’re going!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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FFP2 was required on the Jet2 flights last week Edinburgh
Personally prefer them to the usual surgical ones anyway
Last edited by Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person on Sat 29-01-22 10:47; edited 1 time in total
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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You should ask for compensation, it’s outrageous! Are you flying into Austria or Germany?
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Anyone flown out with any other airlines since the changes (no test required if triple vaxxed)? Flying with easyJet to Innsbruck on 20th feb and was hoping we were in the clear for having to do any testing!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@robandliza, this sounds like an open and shut case of IDB by the airline, and you will be entitled to statutory EC261 compensation. BA have had a good few 'hiccups' like this where they have relied on outdated information from VeriFLY, or basically just have incompetent check in agents.
My advice is - enjoy your trip, and once you're back, take a look at the BA forum on the Flyertalk website - there is a huge thread on flight compensation and lots of experts that will help you with your claim.
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Some relaxations coming, from this morning's press conf:
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From February 5th, the curfew in the catering trade will be extended from the current 10 p.m. to midnight . There is also a little relaxation in the "events area". Instead of 25 people, 50 can now come together again without assigned seats.
A week later, on February 12, the 2G rule will also fall in retail . Also tests are not necessary to go shopping. The FFP2 mask requirement remains.
From February 19th, the 3G rule will apply in gastronomy and tourism instead of the 2G rule . This means that you will need a PCR test that is not older than 48 hours to visit a bar or hotel. If no PCR test is available, you can also submit an antigen test that is valid for a maximum of 24 hours.
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@Scarlet, PCR result to go into bar or hotel less than 48 hours….so you’d need a do a PCR test every day for a week long stay? Really?
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I'm flying TUI from Gatwick next Sat (5th) and hoping any check-in wrinkles with the new rules are ironed out (i.e. triple vaxxed = no test required).
What's this about the 90 days between 2nd and 3rd jab (noting its already been said this refers to Austrians rather than visitors and isn't being checked on entry anyway)? But just in case this comes up, is this a minimum number of days between the two doses (i.e. as long as you had the 3rd *at least* 90 days after the 2nd) you'd be fine as many Brits will have had their 3rd does well beyond the 90 days.
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Yes, the minimum gap.
If you’re jabbed, you don’t need a test to go to a restaurant. 3G means you need proof of being vaccinated, recovered or tested. It replaces the current 2G requirement which only allowed vaccinated or recovered people into restaurants. So it’s a relaxing of the rules.
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@Tiefschneetaucher, ok cheers
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