Vaccine passport to be introduced by airlines from March

With this passport, you can fly anywhere without the need to present any of your official vaccine-related documentation. The application will include digital watermarks, however, and in the case that you do not have them, the authorities completing the check-up can ask where you obtained your vaccination documentation from.

As we previously wrote, the whole world, including Hungary, is working on a solution to get back to our normal lives and find a solution that makes travelling possible and somewhat easier during the pandemic. Starting from March, the biggest airlines will start using a digital certificate for the Covid-19 vaccine, called Travel Pass, which could boost the reopening of borders, aviation, and the revival of previously lively traffic among countries, said Alan Murray Hayden, the head of passenger and security products of IATA (International Air Transport Association). According to the news portal Travel Weekly, he said that bringing this unified digital solution forth is big progress.

He reminded everyone that the purpose of this digital vaccine passport is for a passenger to be able to walk from the pavement to a plane without having to physically exchange documents;

in other words, without the need to verify documents, thus enjoying the service of international flights in a safer way.

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, IATA has built the Travel Pass on top of their existing solution of contactless verification of passengers, which has been in use for decades by travel agencies and airlines. This more reliable solution, which runs on a smartphone, stores and, when needed, updates the certificate of getting the Covid-19 vaccine, or when and with what result a person was tested for the virus, writes MagyarNemzet.hu.