Etihad has ramped up its safe return to the skies with a trial of the IATA Travel Pass app.
We recently brought you the news that Emirates Airline was piloting the digital health passport, which allows COVID-19 testing and vaccine information to be stored in a single, cross-organisation-recognised place.
And now Etihad has followed suit, announcing that flights from Abu Dhabi to Chicago, New York, Washington and Toronto between now and Monday May 31 will be the first to trial the new system.
Mohammad Al Bulooki, chief operating officer at Etihad Aviation Group, said: “With the dynamically changing health requirements for travel, Etihad believes that a digital health passport solution will provide additional clarity and ease for travellers.
“Etihad has partnered with IATA so that together, a globally unified approach to a travel pass can be simplified to make travel easier once governments decide what regulations are required to cross borders in either direction.”
To join the trial, flyers can download the IATA Travel Pass app from the Apple App Store and book an appointment with Life Diagnostics at Sultan Bin Zayed the First Street or BioGenix Labs at Masdar City.
At the clinic, passengers inform reception they are participating in the IATA Travel Pass trial and should be ready to show their passport and mobile with the app already downloaded.
Once the result is ready, travellers will be able to view it on both the app and through the testing clinic’s own digital platform.
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