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What is the current price for mocktails on the ships?

2 hours ago, K_e_short said:

That makes me very happy to know that next time I fly all the passenger will be vaccinated.

 

So does that mean unvaccinated people can't enter Canada by plane?

 

I'm also thinking this will make a lot of Americans angry if they wanted to do Alaska from Vancouver or Victoria 🙂

Unvaccinated Canadian residents and foreigners with work or student visas, or new immigrants will still be flying into Canada.
Otherwise there will be serious consequences for our economy.

On a related note, once people are in Canada, the Canadian government would need enough vaccines on hand for anyone who had received Covaxin, Sputnik, Sinovac or Sinopharm.

8 hours ago, K_e_short said:

"I am annoyed at the comment about "this is not the time to travel.." 
"when is a good time to travel?"

August 9th, when American tourists begin visiting Canada.

Unfortunately, Royal Caribbean's current criteria does not consider me as fully vaccinated for cruising anywhere in the world, not just in the U.S.

My Pfizer/Moderna mix was at 55 days apart.

5 hours ago, lr657 said:

I was hoping that they would extend the book & sail date into 2022 for the FCC's for a cruise you cancel. Getting difficult to use them before December 31, 2021, especially if the ships will be sailing at reduced capacity. 

I thought you had to book using the FCC by December 31, 2021 and sail by April 30, 2022 now. So you could sail during Christmas break 2021-2022 or even March break 2022.

i guess they changed it back to December 31, 2021. Darn. 

As long as your insurance was paying some or all the cost, the U.S. would probably release you.

When you returned to Canada, you may face additional quarantine somewhere since it would have become known that you were in an outbreak hotspot. It could be at a base or in your home municipality.

Of course, who knows what Canada and the U.S. by then.

11 minutes ago, Russ Lomas said:

 

I am a teacher and called my local union today since each board's collective agreement is slightly different.  I was informed that we are 100% covered if we are quarantined.  Not only that, it counts as a short term leave of absence at 100% pay and does not use up any of our 11 sick days.  If teachers are out striking during a quarantine, there is the potential that a teacher would get paid MORE since they are not striking but on a paid leave of absence. Idiot Premier...

 

See my point above.  It will depend on the language in the contract.  If it is like my contract, which it likely is, then you do not have to use any of the 11 sick days at all, nor short term disability days.  It is considered a leave of absence with 100% salary paid.  You are right that unions would have a field day with this one if the language of the contract was not followed..

How many days could a leave of absence be?

There are 1-5 bereavement days, 2 religious holidays, 1 moving day, 2 personal days and 2 days to care for a recovering family member. Do teachers have any vacation days they could use?

Here in Ottawa, Short term disability is 90% salary for 100-120 days.

On strike days, the public board only pays employees who are on sick leave. It does not pay if you are on vacation, special leave or compassionate leave.

My parents and I were scheduled to sail on Symphony on Saturday, March 14th. We cancelled today.

We will still fly to FLL to use the flights and stay at a hotel for 5 nights. So we will be away from home for a shorter time than originally planned.

Many non-cruisers are still going to their all-inclusives in Cuba and Mexico. And some people are still going to vacation in Florida.

On Friday, the Canadian federal chief medical officer and the B.C. Health minister both strongly discouraged Canadians from going on a cruise. The travel advisory said that there may not be evacuations for Canadians like was done from China and Japan. Obviously California was quite easy, but the government will not want to keep spending money on flights.

And now, the federal government travel advisory is ‘Avoid all cruise travel’.

The government may pass along the cost of evacuations to cruise passengers.

Affected Princess ships:

Diamond and Grand tested positive

Royal, Ruby and Regal have been under investigation

I guess the US was ok with all Americans who wanted to leave as long as they had not tested positive. After all, not everyone had been tested until towards the end of the 14 days.

They were on the approved list for the evac flight. Then, while riding the buses to the airport, Japan told the US the latest positive test results. The US must have then pulled the 14 infected Americans aside until deciding what to do with them.

Their quarantine in Canada will be for a maximum of 14 days. It may be shorter though. They will probably test them when they arrive at the air base in Trenton and then test them again every few days.

Still not sure on exact departure day for the evac flight. It would make sense to wait until all Canadians requesting evac have been cleared by Japan to disembark from the ship. So it may only leave Japan on Friday evening.

None of the Wuhan evacuees have tested positive for the virus.

They will be released on February 21st and 25th.

I think 61 Americans remained in Japan. Though a few of them are in Japanese hospitals because they had tested positive already.

CBC and Radio-Canada report that 43 Canadian passengers have tested positive.

Therefore, a maximum of 213 healthy Canadians could board the evacuation flight leaving Japan on Thursday and arriving in Canada on Friday. However, Global Affairs Canada has not been able to contact at least 90 Canadians. They could be infected or healthy.

CBC News and other sources report that a total of 32 Canadians on the Diamond Princess have been infected with coronavirus. So that leaves a maximum of 223 Canadians healthy enough to leave.

Earlier today, the government said that 160 Canadians so far had indicated they want to evacuate on a flight to Canada.

Of course, some people may wish to stay in Japan to be close to family that have tested positive so far. That applies to any non-Japanese passengers.

According to Twitter, 1 Canadian passenger is now at home in St. Catherine’s, Ontario.

I just saw on CBC News that 2 Canadians who were on the Westerdam landed in Vancouver today. They had to wear masks during customs, but were eventually released and went home.

Judging by those departure times, the flight to California should land at 1:30am ET (10:30pm PT) and the flight to Texas should land by 2:30am ET (1:30am CT).

There are still a few flights each week by Chinese airlines to Canada. Beijing/Shanghai to Toronto/Vancouver.
One from Beijing landed yesterday and one from Shanghai today.

Air Canada still flies from Hong Kong to Toronto/Vancouver for the rest of this month and then only to Vancouver in March.

Did Hong Kong not want the Westerdam to return and unload the passengers there?
I ask because there are still daily Air Canada flights from Hong Kong to Vancouver and Toronto.

Thank you Dragon for the pictures of Quebec City. It is a throwback to when I visited on a school trip in grade 8. We were there September 11-14, 2001.

I have been to Halifax, but nowhere else in the maritimes.

After you go through customs and have all your baggage, you will be outside of the secure area. Harvey’s and Tim Horton’s are upstairs near the departures counters.

4 minutes ago, itsmeagain said:

Just heard in local news that MCO (Orlando airport) is closing in 9 hours so that would be around 4 in the morning.

Yep, on their twitter feed Orlando International Airport (MCO) will close at 2am on Tuesday, September 3rd. So tonight's flights will be the last ones out.

FLL closed at noon today.

Westjet has cancelled their flights there through September 3rd. Their last flight was on August 31st.
As reported yesterday, Air Canada cancelled their flights there today September 2nd. Still currently schedule for September 3rd.

Nassau (NAS)
Westjet cancelled its flight there and back today, September 2nd. The next scheduled flight is tomorrow, September 3rd.
Air Canada cancelled its flight there and back today, September 2nd. The next scheduled flight is on Wednesday, September 4th.

Orlando (MCO)
Westjet has cancelled its flights through September 3rd.
Air Canada has one flight each to Toronto and Montreal this evening, September 2nd. No change to its schedule the rest of the week so far.