Recovery unsustainable without Travel Pass-style apps: IATA

Governments around the world are not moving quickly enough to plan for the reopening of international travel markets, in the view of IATA, particularly when it comes to the creation of digital standards for Covid-19 testing and vaccination records. IATA DG Alexandre de Juniac reiterated the industry body’s belief that the recovery in international air travel has the potential to begin in earnest during the upcoming Northern Hemisphere summer season. But despite evidence that consumers and governments want digital apps such as IATA’s Travel Pass to facilitate the safe return of that international flying, much work is left to do in terms of creating a “trusted” system. IATA’s senior vice-president for airport, passenger, cargo and security, Nick Careen, explained: “If a government is going to request some form of assertation that you have had a test… or a vaccination… there will need to be processes in place that help to prove that, or [the recovery of air travel] will not be sustainable.”<br/>