Qatar Airways has been consistently recognized as the world’s best airline and has served as the largest international carrier during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, the airline targets to become the first airline in the Middle East to begin trialing the innovative new IATA Travel Pass ‘Digital Passport’ mobile app, in partnership with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), from March 2021.
The trial will play a vital role in the airline's vision to have a more contactless, secure, and seamless travel experience for its passengers.
The first phase of trials of the ‘Digital Passport’ will be rolled out on the airline’s Doha to Istanbul route, enabling passengers to receive COVID-19 test results and verify they are eligible to undertake their journey.
It will also allow travelers to safely and securely share their verified 'OK to Travel’ status with the airline and other stakeholders, even before their arrival at the airport.
IATA Travel Pass will also provide up-to-date information on COVID-19 health regulations helping travelers to ensure they meet the latest government entry requirements of their destination country.
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Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker, said: “With the most rigorous and robust COVID-19 safety programme in existence within the global aviation community, we are focused on ensuring that Qatar Airways will become the first airline in the Middle East to begin trialing the ground-breaking IATA Travel Pass technology and we are committed to supporting the airline industry through IATA’s Industry Advisory Panel.
The IATA Travel Pass effectively acts as a ‘digital passport’ for travelers and is the latest tool in our fight against the spread of COVID-19, enabling passengers to securely and effortlessly navigate their travel plans, safe in the knowledge that their verified travel credential is based on the latest COVID-19 information, the strictest data privacy regulations and entry rules for the destination they will travel to.
We hope that by investing in this technology we are able to further encourage passengers around the world to have greater confidence in the safety of air travel and begin making future travel plans over the coming months.”
Alexandre de Juniac, IATA Director General and CEO, said: “Qatar Airways is showing its industry leadership. IATA Travel Pass will verify the testing or vaccination credentials of travelers, which is the key to unlocking travel without quarantine measures.
Qatar Airways digital passport trial will help us build confidence among governments and travelers that IATA Travel Pass can securely and conveniently link traveler identities with their digital travel credentials. It will also help us prove that ICAO’s global standards for digital passports work. And it will highlight the need for governments to accelerate their work with industry to develop global standards for health certificates—a critical enabler to safely re-connecting the world.”
The national carrier plans to increase the number of destinations to more than 130 by the end of March this year. Many cities will be served with a strong schedule with daily or more frequencies.
Recently, Qatar Airways was recognized as the first global airline in the world to secure a prestigious 5-Star COVID-19 Airline Safety Rating by Skytrax.
The accomplishment follows HIA’s win as the first airport in the Middle East and Asia to get a Skytrax 5-Star COVID-19 Airport Safety Rating.
Qatar Airways also achieved the Diamond Standard in the Airline Passenger Experience Association’s (APEX) Health Safety Powered by SimpliFlying audit earlier this month.
With more frequencies being added to key hubs, the airline offers unrivaled connectivity to passengers, making it easy for them to change their travel dates or destination if they need to.
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