Collins Aerospace to support IATA Travel Pass

Transport Association (IATA) to help governments safely reopen borders and help passengers safely manage and store required test results. COURTESY COLLINS AEROSPACE

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.

IATAโ€™s 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 IATAโ€™s Travel Pass platform into airlinesโ€™ passenger management systems using the companyโ€™s 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.

โ€œMore than half of the worldโ€™s 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 Aerospaceโ€™s Redefining Air Travel task force. โ€œWith the use of Collins Aerospaceโ€™s technology, Travel Pass will verify the secure flow of necessary information to give governments the confidence to reopen their borders.โ€

โ€œThe industry restart is becoming a reality supported by IATA Travel Pass,โ€ said Nick Careen, IATA senior vice president for Operations, Safety and Security. โ€œCollins 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 IATAโ€™s 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/.