Posted on 12/07/2021 7:45:01 AM PST by workerbee
[Aircrew] have been on an aeroplane for upwards of 25 hours, sometimes closer to 30 hours if there are any delays," says Clark*, another Cathay Pacific pilot.
"They have to sit on a plastic chair and can't sleep, waiting for the tests. The whole process takes about four hours from the time you've landed to the time you get home."
If they test negative, they get to go home - but they're still not free.
In the first three days after arriving in Hong Kong, aircrew must remain at home. They can only leave for a maximum of two hours a day, and only to get tested for Covid or for essential activities.
Crew members then have to "avoid unnecessary social contact" for a further 18 days and continue daily testing.
"I don't think this is in any way fair or justified," said Clark. "Totally unacceptable."
When the pilots test positive, or in Pierre's case, are marked as a close contact of a positive case, they will be sent to hospital or a quarantine facility - like the controversial Penny's Bay centre that has been criticised for its living conditions.
Pierre said being in Penny's Bay was like being in "solitary confinement" in a cramped room that "got zero sun".
"I couldn't even see any plants, not a single blade of grass," he said.
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welcome to Brandon’s
permanent covid
When I see the word "aeroplane," I think of something like a SPAD 13
Not Brandon. Xi. This is in Hong Kong.
A world wide transportation worker strike is the surest way to stop this nonsense. Pilots, train engineers, ferry boat captains, truck drivers all walk off the job for a week. If doesn’t bring things around make it 2 weeks.
Traveling is soooooo glamorous. Not.
Let’s Go Brandon.
Friend with family members who serve as Christian missionaries in Hong Kong told me a similar story. Woman came to the States while her mom was dying. Took her weeks to be allowed to return to HK. Test, quarantine, tests.
Pretty sad stuff.
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