IATA pushes for digital Covid test checks at airports
Passengers alight from a Kenya Airways Flight in Mombasa on May 3, 2021. Passengers could be exposed to inordinately long processing times at airports if travel rebounds to 2019 levels amid slow adoption of digital Covid-19 test verification by governments. PHOTO | KEVIN ODIT | NMG
Passengers could be exposed to inordinately long processing times at airports if travel rebounds to 2019 levels amid slow adoption of digital Covid-19 test verification by governments. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is asking governments to adopt the use of its TravelPass — an application that eliminates the use of paper documents to verify travellers’ Covid-19 test status.
Speaking during a media round table recently, Willie Walsh, the director-general and chief executive of IATA, said departure and arrival processing times for passengers could increase from the current average of 1.5 hours to as long as eight hours.
