Who checks COVID test results?

When I took a picture and uploaded the results to the United Airline ap a day before that was enough proof for them to allow me to checkin online without having to go to the counter.. I did not expect anything more than that.

Did you have to upload the results of your test to check-in?

No, we did not check in online; our airline's app would not allow online check-in for multi-destination travel. We decided not to use Verifly and checked in at CDG.

Did you fly Aer Lingus? It sounds they let you slide by at CDG.

We just came back from Portugal in May and they definitely scrutinized our Letter of Recovery and asked us to get a current Covid test at the airport, even though we knew we would be positive. They said that was ok, it was just what we had to do to be able to leave.

Which airline?

Yes, it was Aer Lingus.We were both negative, so no harm done. But I lost sleep from stress the night before, and we paid for testing and for COVID-related travel insurance, so it would have been nice to have the confirmation/closure.

We just returned from Paris via Delta. We uploaded the official negative test results to the Delta Flyready app and kept a hardcopy. They asked to see it twice.

Could some of it been the fact that your return trip started Paris to Ireland, and Ireland doesn't require covid documentation, so maybe that mindset is carrying over with the staff, even though you were continuing on to the US from Ireland?

I flew on Air France from Paris in September 2021. No one checked my Covid test results. At one point an Air France rep who was monitoring the line for the bus to the plane asked me if I had been tested. I said yes and reached for my results to show her and she said that she did not need to see it so I left it in my bag. No one else at CDG or SFO asked me about the test.

It is an honor system it seems; who aware of the rules is bold enough to test positive for COVID-19 shows up hoping that know one will check the results.

On May 1st I had the same experience that Jazz+Travels had.

Delta scrutinized me very closely

Thanks for all the replies. This was our first trip out of the country since before COVID, and we didn't know what to expect regarding the test requirement. It looks like the airline should have asked for our results and failed to do so.

So I guess this sort of runs contrary to the argument that ‘we’re all safer because everyone on the plane has tested negative’…

As did KLM in April returning from Milan. Covid vaccine cards were checked in Milan and Amsterdam, and proof of negative test was checked before boarding in Milan. At that time the attestation forms were passed out and then collected by KLM in Amsterdam.

Of course that was 6 weeks ago, and all that seems (other than the return to USA test) seems to have fallen by the wayside. Down here in the deep South masking is pretty much non existent and has been for months. Went to a concert with 25,000 Tuesday night, nary a mask in site (well a few, mostly the concert crew). People in this part of the country have moved on.

Wow, I’m surprised Aer Lingus didn’t check Covid test results to fly to the US.

TAP was checking for negative Covid test results on the flight to the US I was on May 18 and also handed out and collected the US attestation forms prior to boarding. It was pretty chaotic in the terminal, several long lines to have the forms checked for the flight I was on as well as other flights. Hard to tell which line was for which flight.