This month, Taiwan’s China Airlines will begin trailing the IATA Travel Pass (ITP) platform launched by the International Air Transport Association to provide digital health verification.

China Airlines is closely monitoring the latest developments in digital health platforms as part of its pandemic prevention program. IATA’s Travel Pass will initially be trialed on flights returning to Taiwan from eight destinations (Los Angeles, Ontario, San Francisco, New York, Vancouver, Frankfurt, London and Singapore.

This service will expedite the check-in process, reduce unnecessary human contact, and provide passengers with greater peace of mind during their flight.

To participate, travellers should download the ITP app from the App Store or Google Play and then complete the online registration process. They can then go to a designated hospital to take the required PCR test and the hospital will update the IATA Travel Pass with an electronic copy of the PCR test report that passengers can present at check-in. Travellers’ health information can then be readily checked by China Airlines ground staff, minimizing the amount of contact and expediting the entire check-in process.

Contact-free services will become a key trend for future of air travel and China Airlines has also partnered with the Affinidi digital health verification platform to trial digital health verification and simplify the check-in process on flights returning to Taiwan from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

The new partnership with IATA will expand digital verification services to destinations in Europe and North America. After this IATA trial run, the results will be assessed to see if the program can be expanded to cover more China Airlines flights.

Concurrently, the Taiwanese carrier is also actively seeking out other international digital verification platforms to do more testing, with the goal of further optimizing its own digital pandemic services. To provide travelers with a safe and convenient travel experience, China Airlines is also working with the “Digital Proof of Vaccination Platform” that is under development in Taiwan to check travelers’ COVID-19 vaccination and PCR testing records

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