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Identity checks are handled by TSA, not airline employees, so this scan has nothing to do with security. They check your boarding pass to make sure you have pai
by paxy 8y ago
Identity checks are handled by TSA, not airline employees, so this scan has nothing to do with security. They check your boarding pass to make sure you have paid for the flight you are getting on.
Also "99% accuracy" can mean it has a 1% false-negative rate rather than false-positive, in which case they will just defer to scanning the boarding pass like normal.
- ams6110 8y agoThey also scan boarding passes at the gate to verify that all checked bags have a corresponding passenger on the aircraft.
- cm2187 8y agoPlus they are required to know how many souls they have on board and who.
- hueving 8y agoNo, for international flights the airline additionally checks your passport at the gate (at least in the US).
- toweringgoat 8y agoCorrect. And they're essentially acting as outward immigration, since the airline's passport records are used to mark the unwanted/foreigners (like me) as departed. But the system is quite flaky, my arrival/departure record is missing a few departures - and I think that's where CBP want to improve things, possibly so they can more legitimately claim that someone overstayed when their records are incomplete. (And I guess also to spot passport swaps.)
- guitarbill 8y agoIt should come as no surprise the CBP will cooperate with other government departments, i.e. ICE. What would be interesting is finding out how they got funding for this rubbish. Judging from when they had these at SecTac in June, it just made everything much, much slower.
- mmt 8y ago> It should come as no surprise the CBP will cooperate with other government departments, i.e. ICE Considering the "C" in both agency acronyms stands for the same thing, it would be more surprising if they didn't work very closely together. Personally, I'm surprised they're separate agencies in the first place.
- goodcanadian 8y agoThe airline checks passports on the way out as they are required to bring you back if you are denied entry at the destination. They try hard not to pay that cost, so they want to make sure you have a passport, all required visas, haven't been barred from the destination, and so on.
- wila 8y agoNormally they do not really pay tor that cost either as your return ticket is void after being denied entry. But it is indeed inconvenient for them.
- goodcanadian 8y agoFair point, but it does presuppose you have a return ticket, which isn't always the case.
- jonny_eh 8y agoTo make sure you can get into the country when they land. They don't want to fly you back.
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