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France Plans Talks on U.S. Flights as It Trials Vaccine Passport

  • Country is first in EU to have developed working system
  • Minister also held bilateral discussions on travel with U.K.

A traveler uses a smartphone in Terminal 3 of Orly Airport, on April 27.

Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg
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France said it’s moving toward a rollout of so-called vaccine passports aimed a jump-starting travel as trials start on internal flights, while planning discussions on the reopening of trans-Atlantic services.

The country’s year-old Covid-19 tracing app has been equipped with a new function to host virus test results and inoculation records and is being deployed on short-haul services between Paris and the Mediterranean island of Corsica, French Transport Minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari said Tuesday.