One pass, all good to go!

The IATA Travel Pass app is an industry initiative enabling you to securely share your passport details and COVID-19 results with clinics, airline, airport and immigration authorities. This means you can avoid having to hand over your physical documents such as your passport and COVID-19 test result, saving time at airport check points.

Additionally, using an electronic version of your passport is safer than using a physical passport. If your phone is lost or stolen, no one can access your electronic passport details!

When you scan the QR code at the clinic this establishes a secured connection between the IATA Travel Pass app on your phone and the clinic. This connection is used for the clinic to validate your digital identity and send the test result directly to your phone when the lab completes the analysis. The application then validates the test result against the travel rules for your itinerary to let you know if the test meets the requirements. You can then show the attestation that you are ready to fly to your airline to speed up the airport verification process.

To use the IATA Travel Pass application, you need to have an ePassport and a compatible phone. Once downloaded, you can create your digital identity and load your flights by:

1. Taking a selfie and a short video of your face
2. Scanning your passport
3. Loading your trips
4. Following the instructions given by the notifications presented on your phone

Open your passport on the photo page. Scan the two lines of characters at the bottom of the page as prompted by the app. If you cannot scan these lines you can also manually enter the details. Then place your open passport behind the phone so it can read the passport chip.

If the application does not manage to read the passport chip, then move the passport to a different place at the back of the phone. The chip is not in the same place for all passports, which is why you may need to move the phone/passport to be able to read the chip in your passport.

You need to have an ePassport. If your passport does not contain an electronic chip, then you cannot use the application yet. If your passport has a chip, it will have a chip icon on the lower half of the front cover.

If you have a French or German passport you cannot use IATA Travel Pass as the legislation in your country does not allow anyone outside of specific government entities to access the data on the passport chip.

You can load your flights by clicking on the ‘YOUR FLIGHTS’ section of the app by selecting your airline and your day of travel.

When adding your flight, you can see the list of airline partners of IATA Travel Pass. If you do not find your airline there it means that they have not joined yet.

Also, if you have two airlines in your reservation make sure you select the airline that sold you the ticket (marketing carrier).

All your information is stored on your phone, and IATA doesn’t save or even have access to your passport data.

When you share your data with a partner, the data is encrypted and sent directly from your phone to the partner. They only use it for the purpose you agree to and delete the data afterwards.

No one can access or share your data except you! If you choose not to share your data, no one will have access to it. When you choose to share your data with a partner, only that partner has access to that data.

The data you share is used only for the purpose you agree to at the time of sharing it and is deleted afterwards. If you wish to know more, refer to the data privacy policy of the partner you shared the data with.

If you wish to learn more about IATA Travel Pass, please visit https://www.iata.org/en/youandiata/travelers/iata-travel-pass-for-travelers/

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