Dubai: Emirates airline has started trials of the COVID-19 'digital passport', an app to help passengers manage their travel in line with any government requirements for testing or vaccine information. Passengers travelling from Dubai to Barcelona on EK 185 trialled the Travel Pass to verify and share their pre-travel COVID-19 test status with Emirates.
The trials are a step towards making travel more convenient, enabling travellers to manage COVID-19-related documentation digitally and seamlessly throughout the travel experience. In future, travellers will also be able to share vaccination certificates with authorities and airlines to facilitate ahead of their trip.
"The ability to process passengers' COVID-19 relevant data for travel digitally will be the way forward," said Adel Al Redha, Emirates' Chief Operating Officer, in a statement. "We are pleased to have been pioneers and partner with IATA in trialling this initiative in real-time and soon will be launching other initiatives to further enhance our customer experience."