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The Lufthansa Group is now offering to send its customers their Covid-19 test certificates via its application. All the documents required for entry will be sent at the same time to a help centre. This centralises and manages all the information currently required for travel in terms of health. [link-block prefix="Also worth reading:" post="105303"] The new...

These days, it's hard to claim to be the ideal companion for business travellers without offering them resources linked to the specific medical and regulatory context of their destination... With this in mind, SAP Concur has enhanced TripIt - the travel application it acquired ten years ago - with new resources. "From planning to landing,...

Air France to test the ICC AOKpass digital health certificate. The announcement of a pilot phase for the Covid solution for digitising test results comes just one day after that made by French Bee and Air Caraïbes. And, like the two airlines in the Dubreuil group, this test programme will cover...

From March, passengers travelling on Air Caraïbes and French Bee flights from Paris-Orly airport to the French Overseas Departments and Territories will be able to test the ICC AOKpass application to certify their negative covid test results for travel to Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Reunion and Tahiti. The...

Why did MedAire, a subsidiary of International SOS, become interested in the subject of digital health passports? Sébastien Bedu - We are focusing on the added value we can bring to our 160 customers, be they airports or airlines. In this context, in addition to testing and screening solutions, we are...

What does the Affinidi Unifier project involve? Nicholas Foo - As you can imagine, these days everyone wants to open up their borders to boost the economy, but no one really knows how... In Singapore, passenger volumes have fallen to 98 %. And as in other countries, the recovery depends on the reopening of the...

Digital health certificates, digital health passports, vaccination passports: whatever you call them, these technological solutions seem to be well on the way to becoming an important part of travellers' lives, and indeed of everyone's daily lives. Ethical debates aside, some countries have already settled the issue. Denmark,...

ICC AOK pass Profile: Announced in May, AOK pass is the first digital health certification solution to be launched. This application is offered by International SOS and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), in association with the Swiss company SGS, one of the world leaders in inspection, analysis and...

For those who haven't already experienced it, it's worth bearing in mind that business travel 'after' will be nothing like it was before. Nomadic professionals will find themselves back on the road again, with constraints they are no longer used to, particularly when travelling within Europe. "I travel regularly between Amsterdam and Geneva. Before Covid,...

Qatar Airways had already announced a few weeks ago that it was exempting its Q Suite Class passengers from wearing transparent protection over their masks. While this double protection has been compulsory for all passengers since July as a result of the application of very strict sanitary measures, it remained "at the discretion of the passenger in...

Emirates is fine-tuning its "contactless" passenger experience with the introduction of contactless check-in kiosks. A total of 16 kiosks are now available at the Dubai hub, more specifically in the economy class check-in area of terminal 3. The First and Business Class check-in areas will be...

It's one thing to capitalise on the demand for hybrid events by acquiring new filming and broadcasting equipment. But we also need to be able to cover the 'physical' part of this 'phygital' dossier, and therefore welcome participants on site, in suitable conditions. That's why the Centre Expo Congrès in Mandelieu-La Napoule recently inaugurated...

It's a second compulsory negative test that stands like a wall for all travellers to the Netherlands. According to the official Dutch government website, all passengers travelling to the Netherlands must produce a negative result from a covid-19 rapid test (antigen test) carried out shortly before departure. The test must not...

The IATA Travel Pass allows Emirates Airlines and Etihad Airways passengers to create a "digital passport". This will make it possible to check whether pre-departure tests or vaccinations meet the requirements imposed at the destination. Passengers will also be able to share test and vaccination certificates...

While vaccination campaigns are now well under way in many countries, at a more or less sustained pace, the idea of a vaccination passport is gaining ground here and there. Israel, a model in this field, intends to issue a "green passport" to its citizens just after they have received their second dose of vaccine. The passport will last...

"2021 is still likely to be a complex, transitional year. Vaccines will be a very important step in controlling the pandemic without waiting for it to end naturally, but they will not immediately signal a return to normal. We're only at the very beginning of the story. If the first vaccines prove...

Vaccination, digital health passports: new obligations should govern business travel in the months and even years to come. A vaccine to revive travel in the age of covid The announcement by the American laboratory Pfizer and the German laboratory BionTech of an effective 90% vaccine against covid-19 should enable the travel industry...

With the arrival of vaccines, is this the beginning of the end of the pandemic? Dr Philippe Guibert - We're only at the very beginning of the story. If the first vaccines prove to be as effective as preliminary studies show, and if countries organise appropriate vaccination campaigns, we won't have to wait long before the...

"The Safe Travel Barometer recently published the results of its latest survey of the health protocols of over 230 airlines worldwide. The "Safe Travel Score" index is an industry first. It was created during the summer, with the reopening of borders following the first wave of covid....

How can travellers be convinced that they are not at risk by taking their seat on board an aircraft again? This is the question that all airlines have probably been asking themselves since the start of the health crisis, with more or less effective responses, both on the ground and in flight. The study unveiled...