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19/06/2013 CAPSCA 4th Global 1
ICAO CAPSCA
4th Global Coordination Meeting
Bern, June 18 - 21, 2013
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Contact Tracing in International Travel
Passenger Name Record (PNR)
and
Contact Tracing
Claude Thibeault MD
Medical Advisor
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- Trade association of world’s airlines - Represent, lead, serve
- Incorporated in Canada in 1945 - ‘Not for profit’ organization
- ~ 240 member airlines in 130 nations ~ 84% of passenger and cargo traffic
- ~ 1300 employees around the globe
- Mains offices: Montreal and Geneva - Many regional/national offices
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International Air Transport Association
Contact Tracing in International Travel
PNR - Record of a passenger’s travel in
reservation systems
- Tool created by airlines for
airlines
- Very variable information
- Contents Not regulated by
governments
API - Advanced passenger
information
- Tool created by governments
- Specific and consistent
information
- Contents Regulated by national
governments
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Contact Tracing in International Travel
API - Mainly passport information, i.e. biographic data and flight
details
- Contents regulated by national governments, but only data
elements that are available in machine readable form in
travel documents (ICAO Standard, Annex 9, 3.47.1)
- A number of ICAO Recommended Practices also apply to
the API (3.47.2, 3.47.3, 3.47.4, 3.47.5, 3.47.6)
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Contact Tracing in International Travel
API (cont’d)
- Information provided to destination border control within
24 hours of departure
- Transmission (message format) regulated by ICAO
referring to the API guidelines of WCO/IATA/ICAO
- Currently used by 42 States, with another 28 in the
process
- Not useful for contact tracing
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Contact Tracing in International Travel
PNR - Reservation data for the operating airline
- Contents not regulated
- Can be very limited: passenger name and flight details (in
case of some travel agents)
- Can also be very detailed, containing sensitive
information, but not necessarily containing the pertinent
data for the requesting government
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PNR (cont’d) - Very often it will not contain the seat number (<50%)
- Departure Control System (DCS) data may of may not be
brought back into the PNR (passenger manifest)
- Nine (9) States currently require access to PNR, with
several other thinking about it (ex: EU)
- ICAO, WCO and IATA have developed global standards
and guidelines to facilitate data exchange between industry
and government
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PNR (cont’d)
- ICAO Recommended Practice: ‘Contracting States requiring
PNR access should conform their data requirement and
their handling of such data to guidelines developed by
ICAO’ (ICAO document 9944)
- If a State request access to PNR, it should accept the
standard message format and the ‘Single Window’
approach
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Contact Tracing in International Travel
Airline
State
Customs Health Immigration
Airline
State
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Contact Tracing in International Travel
Is the PNR a good tool for contact tracing?
Not really!
What could work better?
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Contact Tracing: When?
- When a passenger has a suspected communicable
disease during a flight or during an outbreak of a
communicable disease (PLF)
- Days or months after a flight when it is determined that
a passenger with a communicable disease was on that
flight.
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What is the objective?
The best way for the responsible authorities to
get all useful and accurate data quickly, without
generating other problems.
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The challenges:
• Limiting the number of assumptions
• Achieving harmonization
• Minimizing the time to get the information
• Obtaining accurate information
• Minimizing technical and financial difficulties
• Maintaining privacy
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A few years ago the Passenger Contact
Information Working Group (PCIWG) was
established by the IATA Joint Passenger Services
Committee (JPSC) to look at permanent
alternatives for PCT.
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Conclusion
The electronic mean is the answer
Ex: Australian Visa (Electronic System for Travel Authorisation)
with no airline involvement except for the seat number
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Advantages
- Very simple system
- Electronic system
- Eliminates the need for Passenger Locator Form
- Uses a permanent file that can be updated very quickly (few minutes)
for another trip
- Does not make any assumptions
- Does not rely on the good will of the passengers involved
- Fastest way to retrieve the information when needed
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Advantages (cont’d)
- Involves only the States that are interested in contact tracing
- Those States can do what they want without interfering with airline
operations, as the interaction is only between the passenger and the
States visited
- No need for harmonization or any consensus between States
- The States can keep the information as long as they want
- Eliminates the transfer of personal information between third parties
- Cost is limited to the States that do contact tracing
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