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KUALA LUMPUR, 4 May 2021: Malaysia Airlines is trialling the International Air Transport Association’s Travel Pass, a global mobile phone app that verifies a traveller’s Covid-19 test or vaccine status when checking in for flights or at immigration checkpoints.
The trial commenced on 29 April will be limited initially to
flights on the Kuala Lumpur – London
route. The test ends 27 May. It is limited to passengers who have mobile phones
running the iOS operating system.
Malaysia Airlines said the app was part of the journey to
reintroduce safe and secure travel to provide a travel pass that works for a
broad mix of governments, border authorities, airlines and other stakeholders
France is moving towards a broad rollout of digital health certificates with the start of trials on internal flights, putting it at the forefront of efforts to jump-start travel using so-called vaccine passports. The country s year-old Covid-19 tracing app has been equipped with a new function to host virus test results and inoculation records and is being deployed on short-haul services between Paris and the Mediterranean island of Corsica, French Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said Tuesday. The move could pave the way for a return to normal of flights in the next weeks and months, Djebbari said in a briefing at the capital s Orly airport.
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European diagnostic services provider Unilabs has signed an agreement to integrate its network into the International Air Transport Association s Travel Pass platform, IATA announced on Tuesday.
Unilabs, which has 250 labs across 17 countries and has conducted about 10 million Covid-19 tests since the onset of the pandemic, will upload results into the Travel Pass platform. Those then can be checked against a global registry of health requirements to determine that a passenger is cleared to travel, and passengers can use the app to show their status and digital test certificates to officials as required while traveling.
Unilabs is one of the first major lab groups to integrate into Travel Pass, according to IATA. As international travel starts coming back, we are ready to do our bit delivering the fast, effective and reliable Covid-19 test results that will get people moving again, Unilabs president and COO Michiel Boehmer said in a statement.
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Starting today, Etihad Airways passengers travelling to the US and Canada will be the first to trial the International Air Transport Association’s Travel Pass, a coronavirus digital travel passport that allows users to upload pre-departure test results via an app.
Running until May 31, passengers travelling between Abu Dhabi to Chicago, New York, Washington and Toronto, can download the app and then book an appointment with an accredited testing facility.
At the clinic, guests can inform reception they are participating in the Iata Travel Pass trial and show their passport and mobile device with the app downloaded. Once the test result is ready, travellers will be able to view it on both the Iata Travel Pass app and through the testing clinic’s own digital platform.