On March 8th, Singapore Airlines announced their plan to pilot a coronavirus digital travel pass recently developed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). This app is meant to store and share passengers' health information, specifically relating to COVID-19 testing and vaccinations. While this might be a first step we take to get back to pre-Covid travel, it also raises many questions and doubts. Will this mean quarantine-free travel? What about the potential use of such a travel pass moving forward? COVID Travel Pass: Why Do We Need It? Of all the industries to suffer as a result of the global pandemic, none were as affected as the aviation industry. In 2020, it experienced a 61% loss in global air traffic, from a predicted number of 4.7 billion passengers to 1.8 billion. For Singapore specifically, this meant a decline from 68.3 million passengers at Changi Airport in 2019 to just...