IATA’s head of the airport, passenger, and security products, Alan Murray Hayden, says fast progress is being made to bring its Travel Pass digital health credential solution to market, and “most of the world’s biggest airlines will be using it from March on,” phocuswire.com reports.
“I’ve never in my life seen a project move at such pace,” Hayden notes, speaking during a webinar hosted by IATA and Evernym.
“We have teams of people working 12 hours a day to make this happen and to try to solve this industry problem.”
IATA has developed Travel Pass in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has built it on top of existing IATA solutions including Timatic, a product used by airlines and travel agents for more than 50 years to verify passenger travel documents. Hayden says Travel Pass has also developed quickly because it is an extension of the contactless identity application IATA was developing pre-COVID in partnership with Evernym, a developer of digital identity solutions.
The principal feature of Travel Pass is a mobile app that helps travelers to store and manage their verified certifications for COVID-19 tests or COVID-19 vaccines; it also provides more security and efficiency than paper processes.
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