Are most people testing the day before their departure or has anyone had success testing the day of their flight? We are not wanting to have to go their airport several days in a row if we don’t have to. Our plan was to arrive the day of our flight many hours in advance to take our rapid antigen test in order to receive our results and then upload to VeriFLY before check-in. Thoughts?
Posted by
Magyarország / Rep of Texas
17863 posts
Dont know where you are departing from, but I suspect if you say there will be people here that might be able to recommend a testing lab close to your hotel so you dont have to go to the airport twice.
Posted by
Chicago
7808 posts
Take the required test as early as possible correction: the day before your departure. That gives one more time to process the shock and to make arrangements for quarantine if one were to test positive. I am flying back now I took my test yesterday 1 am CST ( 8 am Milan) at a pharmacy a walk from the hotel. That also made it easier for me to live it up and relax my last day in Italy.
Posted by
Lynnwood, Washington
8340 posts
There are other options besides the airport in most locations as well as proctored home tests. Where are you leaving from?
There are some advantages to testing the day before. You know the result and either can relax or make alternate arrangements without being at the airport with no place to go.
Let me clarify from poster above mine. It is not 24 hours, simply the calendar day before.
Posted by
ATL, USA
413 posts
To clarify someone's response above the testing window is one day, not 24 hours. Testing as early as possible during the calendar day is smart, in case you dont get the result you are hoping for and need to start making arrangements. Taking a proctored test kit with you makes it extremely convenient to do as early during that day as you want.
Posted by
Paris
9549 posts
I always take mine the day before, at a local pharmacy. My flights leave too early to be messing with it at the airport. That day is already long enough.
Posted by
OP
6 posts
All, thanks for the feedback so far. We are currently in Zurich and are scheduled to leave on Sunday, May 22. We have had a hard time finding testing sites online that were not at the airport, that had availability. We went to the airport today just to get the “scoop” on how the rapid tests work and the gentleman encouraged us to come the day of our flight. I am an over prepared, anxiety-ridden planner and my husband would rather just show up the day of and just take the test the morning of. Not sure I want to keep paying to travel to and from the airport.
Posted by
Paris
9549 posts
Have you checked at any pharmacies you have seen around town ? I don’t know if it's the same in Switzerland, but in France and Italy, getting an antigen test at just about any local pharmacy on a Saturday would be easy.
Posted by
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, USA
13905 posts
Are you in a hotel? I'd ask the staff at the front desk if you don't see a nearby pharmacy as Kim suggests.
Posted by
Chicago
2661 posts
Have you checked this gov. website?
https://www.zh.ch/de/gesundheit/coronavirus.html#664924843
Scroll down to where is says “Testing” then “test locations.”
Another site to check:
Posted by
Hudson Valley
2267 posts
If you do end up testing at the airport prior to check in, don't bother with VeriFly. The app has someone actually look at your uploaded documents, which can take an hour or so to turn around. Or you can pay to go to the front of that queue, which I find to be kind of a scam.
Just take your results to the check-in desks and your process will be only a few minutes longer for not having done verifly.