Qantas introduces digital app to check customer vaccination records, starting next week

Qantas will be trialling two digital apps to check passengers’ medical history as the airline prepares to resume international travel. The company announced on Thursday that international travel might be back on the cards from October this year, pushing back its original “restart” date of July 2021. To make for a smooth transition into a COVIDSafe type of travel, the company has been testing out the IATA Travel Pass and CommonPass apps. Repatriated Australians flying home via Qantas will be the first to try out the apps. So far, Qantas has only been testing the travel apps on crew members. From next week, they’ll be rolling it out to Australians flying back home. The IATA and Commonpass apps provide passengers with a “COVID-19 health status” for airline staff to view.<br/>