63103 The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last night (Feb. 1, 2022) welcomed the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)'s move to create a global directory of public keys required for authentication of health credentials. The directory—called the Health Master List (HML)...
Emirates becomes first airline to implement IATA Travel Pass across six continents (2) More major airlines are rolling out the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Travel Pass in phases - Etihad Airways, Jazeera Airways, Jetstar, Qantas, Qatar Airways and Royal Jordanian. This brings up...
Emirates becomes first airline to implement IATA Travel Pass across six continents (2) Emirates became the first airline to implement the International Air Transport Association's IATA Travel Pass in six continents and will roll-out the solution across its over 120 destinations this October....
The extraordinary impact of COVID-19 continued to pull down demand for air travel (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs), which plummeted 74.7 percent in February 2021. This was worse than the 72.2 percent decline recorded in January 2021 versus two years ago, according to the latest...
Digital health certificates may be the key to restart air travel worldwide. Already, Singapore has become the first country to accept the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Travel pass, the umbrella group of airlines yesterday (April 6) announced. Starting next month, May 1, 2021,...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last night (March 17) announced the successful trial of its Travel Pass app for managing passengers' health credentials on an actual flight. The first first traveler using the IATA travel pass flew via Singapore Airlines' and arrived at London’s...
Global passenger demand in January 2021 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) plunged 72 per cent versus January 2019, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced last night (March 2). That was worse than the 69.7 percent year-over-year decline recorded in December...
The government has revised its testing and quarantine protocols for Filipino citizens and eligible non-Filipinos arriving in the Philippines from countries where travel restrictions are in place due to new COVID-19 variants. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) This was according to the advisory which...
Emirates has partnered with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to become one of the first airlines in the world to trial the IATA Travel Pass, a 'digital passport' that verifies passengers' pre-travel test or vaccination to comply with any government's COVID-19 requirements. Before...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last night (December 16) unveiled key design elements of the IATA Travel Pass, a mobile app to help passengers manage trips in line with any government requirements for COVID-19 testing or vaccine information. The IATA Travel Pass is scheduled for...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last night (Nov. 23) announced that it is in the final development phase of a digital health pass for the safe re-opening of borders worldwide. The first cross-border IATA Travel Pass pilot is scheduled for later this year with the launch slated...