Fear, panic and chaos: the joy of flying from the UK to New York again
It was 11.30pm, and hour two of struggling with American Airlines’ third-party app, when I started to give up hope. It hadn’t been this bad on the way over.Before flying from New York to London, I had downloaded the Covid security app, uploaded my vaccine and passenger locator forms, and waited for authorisation to fly. It was onerous but straightforward and the following day, at JFK, I sailed past lines of people still waving their paperwork. “Should’ve downloaded the app,” I thought smugly.
That was on Friday, three days before the US reopened its borders to British passport-holders. The following morning, after a two-thirds empty flight, as per most international travel during Covid, I landed at Heathrow. It was empty, but apart from that
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