
Collins Aerospace is teaming with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to support its Travel Pass digital health platform, designed to help passengers manage their testing requirements, governments safely re-open their borders, and restart international air travel.
IATAโs Travel Pass enables passengers to store, share and manage verified test results and information that may be needed for travel to other countries.
In a news release, Collins Aerospace officials said the company will help integrate IATAโs Travel Pass platform into airlinesโ passenger management systems using the companyโs TransAction solution, which allows passenger data to be safely and securely exchanged between airlines and the IATA Travel Pass mobile app. TransAction is already in use by airlines around the world to share passenger travel information.
โMore than half of the worldโs borders have some kind of travel restriction in place, but we see the deployment of vaccinations and enhanced testing measures as positive steps toward restoring passenger confidence in airline travel,โ said LeAnn Ridgeway, vice president and general manager of Information Management Services and head of Collins Aerospaceโs Redefining Air Travel task force. โWith the use of Collins Aerospaceโs technology, Travel Pass will verify the secure flow of necessary information to give governments the confidence to reopen their borders.โ
โThe industry restart is becoming a reality supported by IATA Travel Pass,โ said Nick Careen, IATA senior vice president for Operations, Safety and Security. โCollins has embraced the solution and is helping airlines to accelerate its adoption by providing a tool to seamlessly and securely integrate airlinesโ passenger management systems with Travel Pass to enable travelers to upload their flight details into the app.โ
More than 60 airlines have already signed up to use IATAโs Travel Pass system, which is already live. For a list of participating airlines announced publicly and instructions on using the Travel Pass mobile applications, go to www.iata.org/en/programs/passenger/travel-pass/.