Tagged: coronavirus

Staples Will Laminate Your Covid-19 Vaccination Card for Free Until May 1

Office supply giant Staples is laminating customers' Covid-19 vaccination record cards for free until May 1. Why would you want that? Because having proof of vaccination will soon be…

Steps the U.S. Government Should Take Right Now to Protect Air Travelers

What should be the top priorities for the U.S. Department of Transportation when it comes to air travel? Consumer Reports has a few ideas. The advocacy organization sent a list of…

Growing Desperate for Visitors, Las Vegas Ramps Up Reopenings

Thanks to the pandemic, visitation numbers in Nevada have dropped to their lowest levels in almost 30 years, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal. It's no wonder that Las Vegas…

U.S. Airlines and CDC to Begin Contact-Tracing Passengers

Last week, the internet was abuzz with rumors that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was about to introduce a testing requirement on domestic airline traffic. The scuttlebutt was…

Alaska Opens Up: Visiting No Longer Requires a Negative Covid-19 Test

As of this week, travelers entering Alaska are no longer required to show proof of negative Covid-19 test results upon arrival. That was one of the provisions in the state's emergency…

Airline Waives Mask Rule for Passengers in First and Business Class

First class and business class flyers getting special perks is not news. But it's a shocking development when airlines decide to bend science in an effort to attract big…

Your Guide to the Airlines' In-Flight Covid Safety Policies

LAST UPDATED MARCH 31, 2021 With no federal regulations to unify their responses, the major U.S. airlines have to figure out how to deal with Covid-19 in their own ways. All of them…

Yardi Gras! With Parades on Pause, New Orleans Decorates Homes Like Floats

In response to the pandemic, New Orleans has banned the following from the 2021 Mardi Gras celebrations in the days around Tuesday, February 16: parades, bars, to-go drinks, and large…

Canada's New Cruise Ship Ban Spoils the 2021 Alaska and New England Seasons, Too

On Thursday, the government of Canada announced a ban on sailing in Canadian waters that stretches for another year—through February 22, 2022. The rule, which forbids ships carrying…

Going Maskless on Planes, Buses, or Trains Could Now Cost $1,500 or More

For most of 2020, airlines and other travel suppliers urgently told customers to wear masks. But if passengers were unwilling to comply, there wasn't much that could be done. The major…

The Testing and Quarantine Rules for Traveling to Hawaii During the Pandemic

Hawaii has the most complicated pandemic travel rules in the United States by far. As an island state, it would be in grave trouble if the hospitals became overwhelmed, so local…

Iceland To Welcome Tourists Who Recovered from Covid-19 or Got the Vaccine

For months, people in the travel industry have been buzzing about the predicted arrival of "vaccine passports" as a ticket to travel. But Iceland has added a new wrinkle to this…

Appalachian Trail: Please "Postpone Hikes Until 2022"

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the group that maintains one of the greatest long-distance footpaths in the United States, is imploring hikers to postpone visits for another…

Two U.S. Airlines Launch Digital "Passports" for Passengers' Covid Status

Frommer's has been talking for months about the advent of vaccination passports, and it looks like the first iterations in the American air industry are here, by way of United Airlines…

Biden Announces Quarantine Requirement for Those Returning to the U.S. from Abroad

Federal regulations regarding travel are changing by the day—if not the hour. On the day after his inauguration as president, Joe Biden announced that, starting Tuesday, January 26,…

Bad Tourists Are Faking Covid Test Results. Here’s How to Stop Them.

The advent of pandemic travel restrictions has given rise to a whole new subset of bad tourists. We're talking about the quarantine flouters, mask refuseniks, and other coronavirus…

On Day One, President Biden Makes Masks Mandatory on Planes, At National Parks, and Elsewhere

Over the last 10 months, common sense sat on the back burner. Even though 33 transportation unions, most airline CEOs, the good folks at Consumer Reports, and hundreds of thousands of…

Island Paradise Opens for Anyone Who Takes the Covid Vaccine

Last summer, the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha, off the coast of Brazil, tried to save its tourism industry by expressly inviting people who had contracted Covid-19 and…

Americans Flying Abroad Must Obtain Covid Tests Before Returning

Starting Tuesday, January 26, anyone flying into the United States will be required to produce proof of a negative Covid-19 test. That requirement, announced by the Centers for…

Guess the Safest U.S. Airline for 2021—and Where It Ranks Worldwide

The world's 20 safest airlines have been named for 2021 by the safety monitors at AirlineRatings.com. Among 385 carriers that were evaluated according to factors such as incident…

The Marshmallow Test for Holiday Travel (Or Why You Need to Stay Home Right Now)

Over six years, from the late 1960s to the early 1970s, psychologist Walter Mischel and his colleagues tempted small children. In one of the most famous psychological experiments of…

If My Toddler Refuses to Wear a Mask on a Flight, What Can I Do?

A few days ago, a video—of desperate parents trying to wrangle an overtired two-year-old—went viral. That's a pretty common scenario for a viral video, but in this case, the tot was…

Will Vaccinations Be Required to Cruise?

At a December 9 meeting with the Travel Leaders group, a multinational network of travel agents, Norwegian Cruise Line CEO Frank Del Rio announced that the company is looking into a…

China: Flight Attendants Should Wear Diapers to Reduce Covid Risk

The regulatory agency that oversees civil aviation in China has issued new guidelines advising flight attendants to wear disposable diapers on flights to and from countries with high…

Delta and KLM to Begin No-Quarantine Flights Between USA and Europe

Last month, Frommer's told you how some airlines have been running special flights on which each passenger has been pre-cleared to fly with a Covid-19 test. Delta Air Lines and KLM…