Australia plans to ditch its incoming passenger card by the end of this year, replacing it with a smartphone-based app that could also contain proof of vaccination against COVID-19.
It’s the latest embrace of digital travel technology for the coronavirus era, and comes as airlines begin rolling out ‘Travel Pass’ apps to certify that passengers have either passed a pre-flight COVID test or been vaccinated.
That list now includes Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways, with British Airways tipped to join them by March; industry body IATA, which developed the Travel Pass and hopes to see it become a global standard for airlines, COVID test centres and government health authorities, claims it is “the key to…