Golf carrier Emirates Airline now also accepts the IATA Travel Pass on flights to / from Frankfurt am Main. In April, the carrier introduced this on a trial basis on selected routes and is now expanding the “network” to ten destinations.

“In the past few months, we have pushed ahead with our projects for biometric, contactless and digital travel tracking in order to offer our customers even more convenience and security: from our biometric path at Dubai International Airport (DXB) to initiatives like this IATA Travel Pass and the integration into the databases of the health authorities - all of them offer a variety of advantages such as a better customer experience, lower paper consumption and more efficiency and reliability in the control of travel documents, ”said Adel Al Redha, Chief Operating Officer at Emirates.

Emirates customers flying between Dubai and Frankfurt, London, Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Istanbul, New York JFK, Moscow, Paris-Charles De Gaulle and Amsterdam can now use the IATA Travel Pass. It can be used to access the latest COVID-19-related travel information, including the locations of PCR testing laboratories, as well as manage personal COVID-19 travel documents such as vaccination records. Passengers on these flights will receive an SMS and an email with the activation code and instructions on how to download the IATA Travel Pass app.