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Digital Visas, Analog Problems: Why Airlines Still Struggle to Verify eVisas

Writing for the IATA Opinions Blog, Harry Grewal, IATA’s Director of Airports, Infrastructure & Customer Experience, poses a deceptively simple question that most travellers — and perhaps even some tourism marketers — rarely consider: when a passenger arrives at check-in with a valid passport, a confirmed ticket and an eVisa, how does the airline actually know that the eVisa is genuine and valid?

Digital Visas, Analog Problems: Why Airlines Still Struggle to Verify eVisas

Published September 18, 2026 by Staff Writer

More than 100 countries now issue eVisas, but IATA says the systems airlines use to verify them remain fragmented — creating a costly gap between governments approving digital travel authorisations…

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