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 that it be done in a maximum of 72 hours.

Fabrizio and another traveler (the latter came directly without proof)

have had to take 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 hand or prepare the QR code on the 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 passengers had to queue and show their proof"

at the health control before leaving.

"If not, you couldn't get through," he says.

While the Alitalia flight disembarked, another one from Paris,

the Air France 1300, also did

.

In this case, there is also a disparity of versions, although the majority of the travelers who leave claim to

have passed double control, at origin, before boarding, and when 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 test 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", Brigitte assures.

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 risk countries

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 asked, their negative test.

Those who do not have it can be given (as in the case of Fabrizio) a quick test 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, as announced by the Government, the traveler who arrives without proof would be penalized.

Few flights

Few flights landed 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 prove 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 Díaz-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 high-risk countries, although the tourist and air sectors request that antigen, which is faster and cheaper, also be admitted.

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