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CAPSCA Global Symposium Can Timatic help during the EVD Outbreak? ICAO Headquarters, Montreal, Canada 28-30 April 2015 Agenda Who is IATA? What is Timatic? What are the sources of information? What happened during the EVD
ICAO Headquarters, Montreal, Canada 28-30 April 2015
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Source: IATA/Tourism Economics ‘Air Passenger Forecasts’ IATA Economics www.iata.org/pax-forecast
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2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000 2014 2019 2024 2029 2034
Outlook for worldwide O-D passenger trips, million
2014-2034 1.8-2.8x growth 2.3-5 billion additional O-D passenger trips Current policies Liberal policies scenario Closing borders scenario
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ICAO Annex 9 Facilitation
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Passport Visa Health Customs Currencies Airport Taxes
Every nationality to every airport - Destination and transit regulations
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1. Passport and Visa regulations & advice 2. Health regulations & advice:
Yellow Fever Immunization
Malaria tablets
Other Health Requirements
1. Passport & Visa regulations 2. Health Regulations & advice:
Yellow Fever Certificate
Other Health Requirements
Static Data Dynamic Data Paper Online
www.iatatravelcenter.com
300 Airlines are connected to approximately 30,000 terminals 48,000 paper copies of TIM (Timatic) are distributed worldwide every
130,000 travel agencies access Timatic through GDS or TimaticWeb More than 2,000,000 travelers and government agencies access in
Over 100,000,000 passengers had their document requirements
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30 April 2015 Can Timatic help during the EVD Outbreak? 15 46% 50% 4%
Airline: 515 Government: 561 Other: 49
Total: 1125 (people)
79% 20% 1%
Countries with airline AND government sources: 173 Countries with only airline sources: 44 Countries with only govermnent sources: 3 Total: 225 (countries)
30 April 2015 Can Timatic help during the EVD Outbreak? 16 32% 36% 12% 7% 5% 2% 2% 2% 2%
Excellent: Pro-active sources Very Good: Reply within 3 working days Good: Reply received between 4 and 7 working days Average: Reply received between 8 and 14 working days Poor: Reply received between 15 and 30 working days Very poor: Reply received after 30 working days Source unable to help No reply from source Phone Call: Reply received after making a phone call
IATA’s Medical Advisor, Dr Claude Thibeault IATA Senior Vice President, Airport, Passenger, Cargo & Security Heads of IATA Divisions and Regional Offices:
Members and External Relations Safety and Flight Operations Aviation and Border Security Regional Offices
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International coordination and state responsibility are critical
IATA guidance based on advice received from authorities/experts i.e. the WHO
IATA regional and local offices are monitoring developments on a real-time basis
The Timatic team is validating that information received are enforced at airports
New travel requirements (e.g. restrictions) are then reflected in TIMATIC
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Timatic updates concerning Ebola started in July 2014
Pick of updates was between September and November 2014
In three months roughly 70 updates were performed in some 45 countries
Health checks increased from 2,900,000 to 3,900,000 during the Ebola outbreak
Ebola outbreak updates are also featured in Timatic news section
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Countries imposed restrictions on:
1.
Travelers arriving from countries infected by Ebola
2.
Nationals of countries infected by Ebola
3.
Nationals of AND travelers arriving from countries infected by Ebola
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Example - BAHRAIN, 19 August 2014
Nationals of Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone are refused entry, even if holding a valid visa or residence permit issued by Bahrain. Transit through Bahrain (BAH) for up to 8 hours is possible. However, it is not possible to obtain the 24 hour transit visa nor the 24 hour Causeway Transit Visa on arrival.
Example - SINGAPORE, 05 November 2014
Nationals of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone require a visa, applied for prior to departure for Singapore. Visitors arriving from or who have recently visited the above mentioned countries are subject to screening and health
assessment.
The Timatic team continues to monitor the situation:
Restrictions in some countries have been totally lifted such as in Guyana Others are being gradually relaxed, such as in Mauritius and USA Full restrictions remain in place in other countries such as in Australia
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ICAO/WHO/IATA: Continue to work together to ensure commensurate measures are put in place in case of major disaster
ICAO/WHO: Help IATA develop a sourcing network with Authorities proactively sharing measures (timediting@iata.org) especially in developing areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa
IATA: Help ICAO/WHO and National Authorities to disseminate health regulations and advices
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