So, in 2015 Priority Pass added the ability to use Apple Wallet / Android to have a digital membership card with QRcode to scan your membership info at lounge entrance.

For some reason, they unfortunately don’t extend this same functionality to PP Select members in the app, requiring them to carry their cards everywhere. This is kind of silly, considering almost all PP lounges will let you in after a membership ID and Expiration lookup. I hate carrying extra cards with me, so I usually opt for this method, even though it’s slower. So if PP won’t fix this, let’s fix it ourselves.

I plan to reverse engineer and replicate the Apple Wallet functionality, allowing PP Select members to enter their information and have a “PP Select” Apple Wallet card generated they can download and install on their phones — and when scanned at the lounge, it will properly pull up their actual account information (no funny stuff!).

(I’ve done with this other things in the past — for example my gym uses a horrible buggy iOS app which takes ages to load and crashes half the time before the QR code comes up. By comparing data with a few other members, we were able to easily make our own Apple Wallet cards which launch instantly and work all the time.)

In order to do this, I need a variety of sample data. Willing to help? I need a few PP members who use Apple Wallet (or the Android equivalent) to screenshot their pass and send it to me. Yes, this means you are effectively sending me your member number, ID, expiration etc. There's no way around this, so you would have to trust me and take my word I have no malicious intentions with this. But if you’re willing to help, email your screenshot to me ([email protected]). I may follow up with some additional questions later on as I make progress.

If I can get this to work, I will release all the code and methodology freely so anyone in the FT Community can take advantage of it, and writeup a blog post explaining the process.

P.S. To be absolutely clear, if this even works, THIS WILL NOT HACK / GIVE ANYONE FREE ACCESS. This would strictly make it possible for Priority Pass Select members to copy their membership info into an unofficial scannable digital card to avoid carrying the physical one.

(Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this, I was having difficulty figuring out the appropriate place to put it.)