Fabrizio has landed at the Madrid-Barajas airport on Alitalia flight 058 from Rome. Upon arrival they asked for his negative PCR test (mandatory from today in Spain) but it had expired. It had been done 10 days ago, but the law here requires it to be done in a maximum of 72 hours. Fabrizio and another traveler (the latter directly came without proof) they have had to do a quick test to be able to leave the airport. Fabrizio, at least, has not been fined.
Federico and Alfredo were also traveling on that same flight. They claim that no one has required them to prove that they had a negative PCR. “Yes they have told us, before leaving, to carry the document in our hand or prepare the QR code on our mobile phone,” says Federico.
Luca, who was traveling on the same flight, assures that he did not have to show anything either. Guido, a young athlete who comes to Spain to participate in a competition, relates, however, that “all the passage has had to queue and show their proof” at the health check before leaving. “If not, you couldn’t get through,” he says.
While the Alitalia flight disembarked, another one from Paris did too, el 1300 from Air France. In this case, there is also a disparity of versions, although most of the travelers who depart say have passed double control, at origin, before boarding, and upon landing.
Check at origin
“There have been people who have not been able to fly and have stayed in Paris because they did not have the proof and they have not been allowed to enter the plane. They have stayed at the airport taking a quick test and they were going to put them on another flight, “says Brigitte.
Another passenger, Maurice, says, however, that in Madrid he did not have to show his test. The traveler can take it on paper or downloaded, through a QR code. This can justify that some passengers believe that they have not been checked (because they have not been asked for the physical document) when in fact it has happened, with the digital code.
“In Spain, on the street, the rules are much stricter than in Italy, but at the airport there the controls are much more rigid”, says Luca.
Both Italy and France are countries at risk And from today it is mandatory for travelers coming from these places to bring a negative PCR test carried out at most 72 hours before.
At Spanish airports, travelers will have to prove, when requested, their negative test. Those who do not have one can be given a quick test (as in the case of Fabrizio) in one of the spaces set up for it in the aerodromes.
“In 10 minutes I had the results, negative, and nobody has told me anything about fines,” says this traveler. Supposedly, according to the Government announced, the traveler who arrives without proof would be penalized.
Few flights
Few flights were landing in Barajas this Monday, because, although the borders are open, half of Europe is confined and in reality most of those who travel do so for work or family reasons.
Barely twenty passengers disembark from each flight. Most have professional reasons. Alfredo and Federico, for example, say that they come once a month for work.
“Doing a PCR test every three weeks is crazy. It would be better if it were the antigen test,” says one of them. Another French couple coming from Paris insists that Before entering the plane, they were already asked for the test, and also when landing in Madrid.
Since the borders were opened, controls at airports have been criticized. Specifically, the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel DÃaz-Ayuso, had denounced that Barajas was a “strainer” of contagions.
The Government decided a little over a week ago to request PCR from travelers from at-risk countries, although the tourist sector and the air sector ask that antigens, which are faster and faster, also be admitted. cheap.
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