CDC's COVID Foreign Quarantine Rule Officially Expires After Pandemic
Published Date: 12/4/2025
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Summary
The CDC’s special COVID-19 travel rules that made airlines share passenger info have officially expired as of November 21, 2025. This means the extra data collection stops, but older quarantine rules from 2017 still stay in place. If you fly or work in travel health, no new costs or changes are coming from this expiration.
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1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
COVID-era airline data rule expired
If you fly, the CDC’s COVID-19 rule that let airlines collect and send certain passenger and crew data expired on November 21, 2025. The final rule (effective December 4, 2025) removes paragraphs (d) and (e) of 42 CFR 71.4 (the IFR added February 7, 2020), while paragraphs (a)–(c) of 42 CFR 71.4 from 2017 remain in effect.
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