The air sector has been ahead of the EU and has already tested its travel pass

, which is the vaccination certificate created by IATA, the International Air Transport Association.

It was tested yesterday among passengers on a

Singapore Airlines flight from Singapore to London.

On the same day, the Commission presented its "green digital certificate", as it has been baptized, and which has yet to be approved.

While Europe thinks about the design of its health passport, the airline industry tests its own.

In reality,

the IATA travel pass and the EU "green health certificate" are very similar,

a digital document with all the tourist information related to Covid-19: the tests that have been done, if they are vaccinated or not, if the disease has passed ... The Commission's would be for the EU and IATA's would be valid for everyone, but only for air travel.


Passengers on the flight to London were able to use this application

and thus have all their digitized health information, without the need to carry physical documents.

By entering the flight data, the passenger can check what requirements are required at the destination (PCR tests, quarantine ...) and after recording the results of their tests, they receive a confirmation that they comply with everything and can travel.

In the case of the passport planned by the EU, it will also have its printed version, but in any case it will have a QR code for quick reading.

IATA insists that checking travelers' paper passports would greatly slow activity at airports, while reading a code is easier and faster.

No paperwork

This document "demonstrates that governments can efficiently manage new travel requirements with complete confidence in the identity of the passenger and avoiding long lines.

It is a specially designed means for airlines to manage new travel requirements

without drowning in processes of inefficient and ineffective role ", said the director general of IATA, Alexandre de Juniac.

The technological development is there, but the airlines believe that now "the standardization of vaccination tests or certifications and their acceptance by the authorities is key."

That is,

that people who have been vaccinated are provided with a valid document when they are going to travel to another country.

"Now governments must provide a digital Covid proof / vaccination certificate when people are tested or vaccinated so they have a verifiable document on their mobile device. This will ensure

equivalence, mutual recognition and acceptance of Covid certifications. for passengers

when they travel the world ", they ask at IATA.

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