This brings the urgent need for standardisation to the epicentre of the discussion. We don’t want to leave anyone behind.” There’s an urgent need to set common standards
“This is the moment to discuss and understand how we can implement this with data protection and privacy, how the certificate will gain form, which systems will work and especially how we can handle this in the different transport sectors – in airports, ports, rail. The choice of health wallet should become irrelevant, so that passengers can use their health wallet and their health credentials anywhere throughout the system,” he said.Įchoing these comments, Cláudia Monteiro De Aguiar, Transport and Tourism Committee, European Parliament, added that we need a solution that could be put in place to help not only the aviation industry, but also the whole travel chain and beyond. “Airlines are using different solutions, but from a customer perspective, we need to get to the point where we give customers choice and that choice can be used anywhere within the airline network. Star Alliance’s Director, Digital & Technology Services, Jeremy Drury, also agreed that as the industry goes through the next stages of the development of the technology, concerns around the interoperability of the solutions will have to be addressed quickly.
I want to be able to use it broadly between states and international borders and across many use cases, not limited to commercial aviation.” As a member of the travelling public and a potential user, I’d like to use my digital wellness passport wherever I go, regardless of my phone manufacturer, operating system, COVID testing facility, vaccine type, airline or in-destination. We cannot walk users into an application that only works within a very specific set of circumstances. Stacey Fitzmaurice, Executive Assistant Administrator, Operations Support, TSA, explained: “The solution must be versatile. This then raises some concerns around the interoperability of such solutions, which was a leading topic during the webinar. While trials of the technology are progressing, it’s becoming evident that there won’t be one single, globally recognised solution that could work universally across the entire travel industry and beyond. Here we share some of the key takeaways: The importance of interoperability So, this week FTE tuned in to a virtual broadcast, hosted by Plug & Play, during which a panel of industry leaders from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Virgin Atlantic, the European Parliament, Corporacion America Uruguay, Vienna International Airport, Star Alliance and Denver International Airport, discussed the main challenges surrounding the rollout of the technology. In the past few months we have also seen a number of airlines – including British Airways, Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways, United, Emirates, Copa Airlines and Etihad – announce trials of the technology, with some even trialling more than one solution from different providers simultaneously. Several solutions have already entered the market from various suppliers, including AOKpass, CommonPass, IATA Travel Pass, Daon’s VeriFLY, the UK-based V-Health Passport, YOTI, Mvine-iProov passport, CLEAR Health Pass and IBM Digital Health Pass, just to name a few. Removing the need for paper-based documents, the mobile solution will allow passengers to verify their identity and prove their health status by storing results of COVID-19 tests, and eventually, digital vaccination records. Many countries currently require COVID-19 test results on arrival, and it’s likely that a COVID-19 vaccine confirmation will also be required soon. As we’ve seen in the past few months, the technology is considered to have real potential to help drive the industry recovery from the crisis. Photo credit: CommonPassĭigital health passports are a hot topic in the air transport industry right now.
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Collaboration and cooperation between industry stakeholders, and establishing common standards will be key to the full rollout of digital health passports in the next few months.
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