The company Air France must test from this Thursday, and for one month, a "digital health pass" on its routes from Paris to Guadeloupe and Martinique, in order to "improve the experience of its customers and streamline their journey through the airport ”.
The results of the negative Covid test, necessary for travel, will be authenticated through a partnership with a laboratory and saved securely on an application.
Such a system “makes it possible to facilitate the transport of documents, to digitize them and to authenticate them.
It avoids fraud, it unclogs queues ”on boarding and arrival, said Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, the Minister for Transport, this Thursday morning on RMC.
"The (air) sector wished to anticipate" which, according to him, could be "a foreshadowing or anticipation, in any case a full-scale experiment, of what could be tomorrow a future travel pass or a health pass ".
A compulsory vaccine to take the plane?
The International Air Transport Association (Iata), which brings together most of the global sector, has been working for several months on a digital passport allowing passengers to prove their health status before boarding.
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"There will most certainly be health protocols that will require either to have a test or to have a vaccination certificate" to take the plane, said the minister.
Hence the usefulness of these applications, “in conjunction with laboratories, which simplify travel”.
As for the obligation of a vaccine to take the plane, "this discussion has not yet taken place at the political level," he noted.
And the question of such a "pass" to take the plane "is very different," said the minister, "from the subject of daily life in France to know whether a vaccine or a PCR test and / or other documents to be able to access the restaurant, the theater ”.
