Family & Relationships1 min ago
Flights To Manila
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ok so my daughter and son in law plus 2 (4 & 1) are in the UK and need to get back to Manila where they live and work first week of August. With all covid restrictions and red amber and green countries this is proving difficult. They came in via Greece. They booked a flight and they have now had this cancelled at a cost of £4.000 which they wont get back for a while. They don't mind how they get there but need more ideas......they are vaccinated for covid and will have had two vaccines when they travel (last one booked for 23/7) they will have to isolate in a hotel when they get back but we have to get them back first ?!
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This link shows the flights that are currently operating into Manila. (There's clearly no point in seeking airports for connections if there aren't any flights from there into Manila. The link only shows tomorrow's timetable, not that for early August, but it's a good starting point anyway)....
22:59 Mon 05th Jul 2021
I got a bit lost there, L_B.
Your post seems to refer solely to leaving the UK and travelling back to Manila but you then refer to the UK's 'traffic light' red/amber/green system, which only applies to inbound travel You've given no indication of them needing to return to the UK in the immediate future, so its relevance to the situation is unclear to me.
Perhaps you could provide some clarification?
Your post seems to refer solely to leaving the UK and travelling back to Manila but you then refer to the UK's 'traffic light' red/amber/green system, which only applies to inbound travel You've given no indication of them needing to return to the UK in the immediate future, so its relevance to the situation is unclear to me.
Perhaps you could provide some clarification?
Hopefully the UK's 'traffic light' system will have gone by next summer, so it's completely irrelevant to the current situation. (The UK government has no interest at all in where people travel to if they won't be coming back until a time when we no longer have 'traffic lights').
So your family members can travel on any route to Manila, as long as
(a) there are actually flights serving their chosen route (with the airline/s not having any relevant restrictions on where passengers have come from) ;
(b) any transit or stopover countries along the way don't have any rules prohibiting them from entering (or making such entry difficult through isolation rules) ; and
(c) the government in Manila hasn't got any rules prohibiting entry from the UK and/or any transit countries.
Give me a short while and I'll try to see what is actually possible.
So your family members can travel on any route to Manila, as long as
(a) there are actually flights serving their chosen route (with the airline/s not having any relevant restrictions on where passengers have come from) ;
(b) any transit or stopover countries along the way don't have any rules prohibiting them from entering (or making such entry difficult through isolation rules) ; and
(c) the government in Manila hasn't got any rules prohibiting entry from the UK and/or any transit countries.
Give me a short while and I'll try to see what is actually possible.
This link shows the flights that are currently operating into Manila. (There's clearly no point in seeking airports for connections if there aren't any flights from there into Manila. The link only shows tomorrow's timetable, not that for early August, but it's a good starting point anyway).
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I note, from that timetable, that Philippine Airlines (code PR) and Jetstar Asia (code 3K) are currently flying from Singapore to Manila, so Singapore might theoretically be a possible connecting point. However currently only passengers travelling with a combination of flights using Singapore Airlines, Scoot, Air France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Air Niugini, Garuda Indonesia, Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines and Turkish Airlines are permitted to transit in Singapore Airport, so that avenue seems to be closed off. (I only mention it to save you, or anyone else, trying to find connections via Singapore).
I know that a connection via Los Angeles (which is shown on that timetable) won't work as, in answering another question here recently, I've found that the USA won't allow passengers to transit in their country unless they're actually eligible to enter into the USA itself (which basically only applies to US citizens and residents). So we can forget about that route too.
Gulf Air (code GF) though is shown as flying into Manila from Bahrain. That's led me to checking whether Gulf Air can get your family members from Heathrow to Manila, via Bahrain. Taking a sample date of 4 August, I see that there's a flight from Heathrow to Bahrain at 1000, arriving at 1815. The connecting flight to Manila leaves at 2055, arriving at 1130. There appears to be no restrictions barring transit at Bahrain airport. (Indeed, people arriving from the UK are currently exempt from isolating if they're actually entering Bahrain, so there should be no problem transiting between flights which are both operated by the country's own state airline).
Problem solved, perhaps?
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I note, from that timetable, that Philippine Airlines (code PR) and Jetstar Asia (code 3K) are currently flying from Singapore to Manila, so Singapore might theoretically be a possible connecting point. However currently only passengers travelling with a combination of flights using Singapore Airlines, Scoot, Air France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Air Niugini, Garuda Indonesia, Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines and Turkish Airlines are permitted to transit in Singapore Airport, so that avenue seems to be closed off. (I only mention it to save you, or anyone else, trying to find connections via Singapore).
I know that a connection via Los Angeles (which is shown on that timetable) won't work as, in answering another question here recently, I've found that the USA won't allow passengers to transit in their country unless they're actually eligible to enter into the USA itself (which basically only applies to US citizens and residents). So we can forget about that route too.
Gulf Air (code GF) though is shown as flying into Manila from Bahrain. That's led me to checking whether Gulf Air can get your family members from Heathrow to Manila, via Bahrain. Taking a sample date of 4 August, I see that there's a flight from Heathrow to Bahrain at 1000, arriving at 1815. The connecting flight to Manila leaves at 2055, arriving at 1130. There appears to be no restrictions barring transit at Bahrain airport. (Indeed, people arriving from the UK are currently exempt from isolating if they're actually entering Bahrain, so there should be no problem transiting between flights which are both operated by the country's own state airline).
Problem solved, perhaps?
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//...they bought a one way ticket from Manila as stopped in Greece (amber) so they could come here.//
ii doesn't matter now but the Phillippines is on the "Red" list of countries. Transitting in Greece does not mean they can adopt the amber list requirements on arrival unless they were in Greece for more than ten days. Unless they arrived before the R/A/G regulations came in they should have entered hotel quarantine upon arrival.
ii doesn't matter now but the Phillippines is on the "Red" list of countries. Transitting in Greece does not mean they can adopt the amber list requirements on arrival unless they were in Greece for more than ten days. Unless they arrived before the R/A/G regulations came in they should have entered hotel quarantine upon arrival.
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