Qantas will require passengers to get vaccinated before they will be allowed to fly international.
Speaking on channel nine's Current Affairs on Monday Alan Joyce Qantas bosses says that to be vaccinated before getting on board it would be a necessity for travellers once a vaccine becomes available.
He mentioned that the Australian company looking into the possibility of requiring passengers to have a vaccination passport to allow them to travel international. He is also considering to extend it domestic flights
"We are looking at changing our terms and conditions, to say for international, that we will ask people to have vaccination before getting on the aircraft" Mr Joyce confirmed.
"We think for international visitors coming out and people leaving the country we think that's a necessity.
" I think it will be a common theme talking to my colleagues in other airlines across the world "Mr Joyce said.
Adding Mr Joyce said that trading conditions were the worst in the airline's 100-year history and that the impact on covid on all airlines is clear-it's devastating.
Australia put in place on of the world's strictest lockdown measures including borders locked 14-quarantine for arrival to curd the spread of covid -19 infections and as a result the international travel has been hit hard by travel cut and airlines laying off staff.
On Monday the borders between New south Wales and Victoria reopen after four months. The second busiest domestic route in the world between Sydney and Melbourne has been resumed again.
Passport health and vaccinations:
"Today borders are double locked. Testing is the first key to enable international travel without quarantine measures," said Alexandre de Juniac, IATA's director general and CEO in a statement
"The second key is the global information infrastructure needed to securely manage, share and verify test data matched with traveler identities in compliance with border control requirements. That's the job of IATA Travel Pass. We are bringing this to market in the coming months to also meet the needs of the various travel bubbles and public health corridors that are starting operation."
Qantas is interested in adopting the IATA's (International air transport Association's) Covid-19 digital passport.Based around on app IATA's travel pass provides passengers with information about testing or vaccination requirements in the country they are travelling to and where locally they receive those test or vaccinations from verified providers. The travel is currently in its final phase of development.
.IATA's travel pass is planned to be run as a pilot test later this year and with the aim of launching in the first quarter of year 2021.
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