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That is not, in fact, how boarding passes at airports work. Identity checking is done by TSA, in a step that is very often the bottleneck and consumes enormous

That is not, in fact, how boarding passes at airports work. Identity checking is done by TSA, in a step that is very often the bottleneck and consumes enormous amounts of manpower and physical space.

xyzzyz 4y ago
That’s exactly how they work when you actually board the plane.
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- azernik 4y ago
  The thing they scan is your boarding pass. They do not perform the ID checking, which because of varying forms of ID is a non trivial problem that they push back to the security lines.