CHICAGO: United Airlines said on Thursday that passengers on its flights from London Heathrow to the United States must present a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours of departure beginning December 28.
\nThe decision follows the emergence of a highly infectious new coronavirus variant in Britain, which has prompted many countries to shut their borders to travellers from there.
\nThe policy is for travelers over the age of 5 originating travel from Britain and will not apply to anyone connecting in Heathrow on to a United flight from another country.
\nPassengers will be asked to show proof of a negative molecular Covid-19 test or antigen test, and same-day, pre-flight rapid tests will be available for ticketed passengers at a Heathrow testing center.
\nNEWS IN BRIEF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CHICAGO: United Airlines said on Thursday that passengers on its flights from London Heathrow to the United States must present a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours of departure beginning December 28. The decision follows the emergence of a highly infectious new coronavirus variant in Britain, which has prompted many countries to shut their borders to travellers from there. The policy is for travelers over the age of 5 originating travel from Britain and will not apply to anyone connecting in Heathrow on to a United flight from another country. Passengers will be asked to show proof of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}