new delhi the international air transport association iata is expected to launch early next year a trial of the iata travel pass a digital health certificate to facilitate safe restart of international air travel after the pandemic the iata travel pass on the lines of the yellow fever inoculation certification which is mandatory for passengers travelling to africa is expected to be launched in january industry sources told toithe travel pass is expected to serve as a central and standardised resource for information about all coronavirusrelated travel requirements and restrictions and will also contain information about how to conduct and carry test results to show to airlines and border officers around the worldspeaking to toi honorary general secretary of the federation of associations in indian tourism hospitality faith subhash goyal said the travel pass will be a uniform health certificate that is accepted across governments airlines accredited laboratories and travellers and will ease international traveliata said the travel pass is a necessary prerequisite to reopen borders without quarantine and that governments need to be confident that they are mitigating the risks of importing the virus before they restart aviation this means having accurate information on passengers covid19 health status iata saidseparately the indian tourism and travel industry has petitioned the civil aviation ministry to restart scheduled flights to and from countries with which india has established air bubbles along with this faith has also asked the governments to issue evisas for countries with which air bubbles have been established and replace the 14day quarantine for international passengers with a mandatory coronavirus test 96 hours prior to undertaking travel goyal saidtravel industry bodies in india have also sought the governments intervention in setting up a corpus for bailing out airlines that have gone into the red and have been unable to repay travellers for unutilised tickets