{"id":807,"date":"2021-03-26T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/news\/?p=807"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T16:43:10","slug":"virgin-atlantic-to-trial-digital-health-certificates-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/2021\/03\/26\/virgin-atlantic-to-trial-digital-health-certificates-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic to trial digital health certificates in April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Virgin Atlantic announced on Friday the company will launch two one-month trials involving digital health passes on April 16 on its flights from London to Barbados. Travelers will be invited from mid-April to download the IATA Travel Pass and create a profile according to the airline, in which they will store information about COVID-19 testing as well as vaccination status once it is available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In parallel to the UK&#8217;s successful vaccination program and accompanied by a risk-based, phased easing of restrictions, we can see a flightpath to soon allow the safe restart of international travel at scale, in time for summer,&#8221; commented COO Corneel Koster, adding that &#8220;rapid, affordable testing combined with digital health integration will be vital to streamline and simplify the customer experience, make border health checks manageable and build consumer confidence.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Virgin Atlantic is also seeking to introduce a similar feature in the United States. From March 29, travelers will be able to verify COVID-19 test results digitally through their smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Atlantic announced on Friday the company will launch two one-month trials involving digital health passes on April 16 on its flights from London to Barbados. Travelers will be invited from mid-April to download the IATA Travel Pass and create a profile according to the airline, in which they will store information about COVID-19 testing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wintrademarkets.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}