AirNZ to trial Travel Pass smartphone app on Sydney-Auckland flights

Great idea 

I certainly want to be sitting next to someone who has been vaccinated 

on a 24 hour flight to London

I have a Medicare app on my phone with my vaccination history, will they be linked in anyway or yet another duplication whereby doctors and pharmacists have to upload to different systems.

all well and good for those of us who have a phone with apps but those phones cost silly money.

Many of these apps being developed globally, but still require some sort of uniform framework for how government's (border control) will actually access the data. 

What happens if your phone battery is dead at check-in/arrival?? Will travelers be holding their phones up to the immigration window?? Process when travelling with young children....? List goes on

In the UK, the government has said it WON’T be issuing a vaccination passport or any sort of confirmation of vaccination except a letter from your GP confirming you have been vaccinated!! 

How will that work with this app? I’ve already had my first jab of the Pfizer vaccine and besides a VERY sore arm for four days (I could literally not lift my arm above my shoulder for four days it was that painful), I’ve had no side effects.

I’m keen to get travelling again and visit my family in Singapore and the UAE, and was hoping that the vaccination would open that up. Now I’m not that sure!! A GP letter can be knocked up on any old desktop, so how is that gonna hold up as proof? 

Typical Bumbling Boris and his nitwit cohorts of Tory idiots to mess up the finer points of an otherwise brilliant vaccination program (BECAUSE it was run by the NHS and NOT farmed out to some well connected Tory lard arse donor, like the £22 BILLION disaster that is our Track and Trace system). Ok, political rant over. 

I JUST wanna get on a flight and turn left on boarding a flight again!! Is that too much to ask? 

It's all going to be too complicated and cost too much money for most governments who have already borrowed too much money. I think that once most of those vulnerable people have been vaccinated and fewer ending up in hospital, many governments will relax things and the vaccine travel pass will become extinct. After all, governments have done their best and assuming that hospitalizations diminish in number, then you have to say that they have achieved what they want. And life will go on, but at different paces for different countries. I think the northern hemisphere will be back to almost normal by mid european summer. Capitalism will call the day.  

Australia is a whole different story. Even when most vulnerable people are vaccinated, I am not sure that any of the state premiers have any appetite for risk. But somebody will have to eventually get the courage to challenge their state residents and open up their international borders to international travellers. Being vaccinated makes no difference because the vaccine does not prevent infection and transmission. That is an undisputed fact. I am sure that there is not a single premier wanting to be at the beginning of that queue to allow in any potentially infected travellers. So Australia will most probably be one of the last countries to open up for international arrivals and I am sure that won't happen until some time into 2022.

GoRobin you may be right with not opening up until 2022. The vaccine reduces the severity of the disease (keeps people out of hospitals) and that is becoming an undisputed fact and it also reduces (but not eliminates) transmission. All in all it makes the bug more manageable and hopefully the same as any other cold. We won’t know this for sure until whole populations are mostly vaccinated which will be in the next six months or so. My guess for borders being opened is the second half of the year or I could be bolder and say the third quarter of this year.