08/03/2021

Global Spotlight: Smoother Global Travel After COVID

An app helps air travelers navigate countries’ differing entry requirement

Reviving international air travel after the pandemic means instituting a host of new processes, from setting safety protocols for passengers to navigating a patchwork of different rules about what travelers can do in each country. There’s a common thread among those changes: paperwork, or its digital equivalent.

In fall 2020, the International Air Transport Association, which represents airlines, began exploring the creation of a tool that would provide information about different countries’ test and vaccine requirements for travelers and allow travelers to share their vaccine and test information with airlines and government authorities.

“We needed something that would be efficient, would be authenticated, and could be done within the existing framework of how people travel,” said Perry Flint, IATA head of corporate communications, USA. “We can’t go back to paper processes.”

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