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Monday will be a massive day for the United States travel industry. On November 8, 2021, the U. S. will reopen for international non-essential travel, ending a two-year tourism ban during the Covid-19 pandemic. To reopen safely, the country is imposing a vaccine mandate for foreign visitors. As a recent Presidential Proclamation states, “it is in the interests of the United States to move away from the country-by-country restrictions previously applied during the Covid-19 pandemic and to adopt an air travel policy that relies primarily on vaccination to advance the safe resumption of international air travel to the United States.”The United States will require foreign adult travelers to be fully vaccinated with a World Health Organization-approved vaccine. Children under age 18 are exempt, as vaccine availability is still limited in many countries. In addition, all incoming foreign visitors and returning U. S. residents must have a negative result from a Covid test result taken within 72 hours before arriving into the U. S. Implementing these changes will be challenging, not least of all because there remains no global standard for screening travelers’ Covid records during the pandemic. “It is still a bit of the Wild West, as far as it goes with verification of health status and travel,” says Sherry Stein, head of technology for the Americas at the Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques (SITA), a multinational information technology company providing services to the vast majority of the world’s airlines and airports. Just as U. S. has lagged behind much of the world in lifting its travel ban, the country is taking a very different approach to how to screen incoming travelers’ Covid documentation. While most already-open countries have developed a national digital solution for travelers to provide their vaccine and testing information, the U. S. is instead putting the onus for Covid-credential vetting on the airlines.“The airlines right now are the ones seen as as being the ultimate decision makers, in what approach they choose to take in order to meet the requirements,” says Stein. “Every airline is doing its own thing, they’re finding their own way.”That means travelers coming to the U. S. will submit Covid-related documentation not to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) but to their airline. Delta Air Lines has its Delta FlyReady solution, United has incorporated requirements into the United app, while American Airlines is using VeriFLY. Some airlines are embracing wider digitization, so, for example, “if the traveler has a pass like an IATA Travel Pass or the Common Pass they can link that to the airline system,” says Stein. Last week at a U. S. travel event, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian warned that travelers should be prepared for long lines when the U. S. lifts restrictions on November 8. “It's going to be a bit sloppy at first.


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