Originally Posted by
NWIFlyer
This is what Timatic lays down as the requirements (my bolding):
There's absolutely no mention in there of what constitutes a valid certificate, so I can perfectly well understand the BA check-in agent denying you boarding until the necessary assurances had been received from the Spanish immigration authorities.
Originally Posted by
KARFA
But the CDC card is not what anyone would call a certificate, very much like the little blue cards in the UK are not certificates. Here at least they have provided an ability to generate a proper vaccination certificate through the NHS app.
ٌThe CDC card reads “record of vaccination.” That is a certificate; a document doesn’t have to include the word “certificate” for it to certify something, which the CDC record of vaccination certainly does. If anything, the absence of definition of what constitutes a valid certificate should make the CDC card that much more acceptable, since the IATA program does not say, for instance, “the certificate must say ‘certificate.’”