The European peak summer season of 2021 will be critical for airlines, airports and destinations across Europe, along with a huge range of businesses which rely on travel and tourism.
Iata warns of ‘8-hour chaos’ at airports without digitized health checks issacjohn@khaleejtimes.com Filed on June 1, 2021
Iata has developed a Travel Pass, enabling passengers to receive Covid-19 test results and verify they are eligible to undertake their journey through an ‘OK to Travel’ status. File photo
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Without the digitisation of checks, the average time spent in airport processing could reach 5.5 hours per trip at 75 per cent of pre-Covid traffic levels and eight hours when traffic recovers 100 per cent.
The International Air Transport Association (Iata) has warned that airport processing times could reach eight hours per trip as traffic recovers, unless governments move quickly to adopt digitized solutions for Covid-19 checks.
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British Airways has now joined this group with this announcement:
British Airways will initially trial IATA Travel Pass on flights from London to Zurich and Geneva
The airline’s parent company International Airlines Group, has been working with IATA, the association for the world’s airlines, to co-develop its Travel Pass app
The new travel pass is added to two other digital solutions being tested by the airline as it continues to seek out the best solutions for its customers to ensure frictionless travel
VeriFLY, an alternative app already being used by the airline, also continues to evolve as the airline works with testing suppliers to automatically upload results into the app and enable online check-in once documents are verified
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is pushing for countries to adopt standardized digital COVID-19 screening processes at their airports. If they don’t, the organization says travelers could face waits up to eight hours as vaccination records and test results are verified. “Without an automated solution for COVID-19 checks, we can see the potential for …