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Geneva / Frankfurt (dpa) - The Arab airlines Etihad and Emirates are introducing the new type of health pass from the world airline association IATA for their passengers.
The aim of the pilot project is to collect the necessary information on passengers, vaccination certificates, tests and entry requirements for air traffic in a mobile phone application.
The "IATA Travel Pass" is intended to facilitate air travel under the conditions of the corona pandemic and to avoid quarantines as far as possible.
The association assures that the data should remain under the control of the passengers.
IATA had the app developed and has already tested it with pilots from British Airways parent IAG.
Deutsche Lufthansa is also involved in the project according to its own information, but is still examining the introduction for certain groups of passengers.
At the same time, there is a second app concept called CommonPass, which Lufthansa is also working on and which can possibly be integrated into the entire travel chain, including accommodation.
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Etihad plans to initially offer the IATA pass on selected flights from Abu Dhabi in the first quarter of this year.
Emirates announced on Tuesday that its passengers will be able to use the app to present their corona test results before departure in Dubai from April.
Basically, IATA wants to make the technology available to all airlines.
Instead of 4.5 billion people in the previous year, only 1.8 billion people were traveling by plane in 2020.
According to IATA estimates, the airlines made losses of 118.5 billion US dollars (99.9 billion euros).
Communications IATA