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The article mentions that it did detect the duplicate. What surprised me is that the airline does not check the ID at same time as the boarding pass. I mostly f
by chatmasta 3y ago
The article mentions that it did detect the duplicate. What surprised me is that the airline does not check the ID at same time as the boarding pass. I mostly fly internationally, but I can’t remember ever boarding without showing both my boarding pass and my passport, and the agent verifying the match. I guess domestically this is more of a challenge because there is no standard ID document to request passengers show at the gate? Still, surely they could ask for the same document shown at security… but maybe that would cause problems with customers who have esoteric form of ID that the TSA recognizes as legitimate but a gate agent might find suspicious.
- MattGaiser 3y agoUS doesn't check ID to board the plane. Inside the USA, I have never shown ID for a domestic flight.
- petesergeant 3y agoAt Heathrow it’ll take a picture of you when you go airside, and that needs to be the same photo of you as at the gate
- steveBK123 3y agoJust flew out of JFK and they now do the same. Never had that before even flying as recently as October.
- jaredwiener 3y agoMy understanding -- and grain of salt, etc, since I don't actually work for an airline or anything -- is that airlines check passports out of liability. If you were to arrive at your destination and be turned away at the border, they would be required to fly you back to your country of origin. So....they check passports. TSA checks IDs -- any valid IDs -- to let you in the secure area.
- csomar 3y agoThat's done before they issue you a boarding pass.
- kiwijamo 3y agoGenerally they check at the gate as well for international flights. So two checks -- one at check in and again at the gate.
- chatmasta 3y agoUnrelated to the main topic of the post, but is this actually true? > If you were to arrive at your destination and be turned away at the border, they would be required to fly you back to your country of origin If a border agent denies you entry, even for a reason the airline could not have foreseen, they are required to fly you back? Does that also mean that an airline is only able to offer flights between countries (A,B) if it also offers them between (B,A)? And is there some maximum time allowed between those flights, e.g. an airline can only fly into a country if it also offers a flight back to the same country within twelve hours? I seem to remember reading something about countries putting denied entries on a flight back, by effectively loaning money to for the ticket… not sure how they collect on it though.