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I do however find it slightly irritating that no ID at all is needed to fly from Germany to Sweden. Repeatedly, the only thing needed at all was the number on t
by kaybe 13y ago
I do however find it slightly irritating that no ID at all is needed to fly from Germany to Sweden. Repeatedly, the only thing needed at all was the number on the e-ticket. Not even a check of whether the ticket was in my name.
- Amadou 13y agoThat's the way things ought to be.
- igravious 13y agoDo you need ID to travel from L.A. to Phoenix?
- dragonwriter 13y ago> Do you need ID to travel from L.A. to Phoenix? By commercial air, yes; in the US, you need ID and a matching boarding pass to enter the secured area of an airport, which is an essential prerequisite to boarding an airplane.
- fsniper 13y agoThen answer this bizarre question; Why would a person with the intention of doing some stunt use mismatching documents? If this person is a terrorist or some kind of outlaw, would not s/he use fake docs telling a story reputable to customs officers/TSA? I believe this security theatre is nothing but a money sink hole. Use whatever means are necessary to make transportation unpleasant to honest travelers if it does not even mean to stop any outlaw.
- bane 13y agoIt's the easiest question you can ask and one of the simplest security processes you can ever put in place. Let's assume you are a bad person on the no fly list. 1) Go to an airport, hang around the bathrooms in the pre-security area. Wait till somebody drops a boarding pass. Board a plane and do bad things. 2) Go to an airport, have an associate who's not on the no fly list buy a boarding pass. He gives it to you. Board a plane and do bad things. Both are scenarios that are stopped by simply requiring matching ID and are lower effort then getting fake IDs.
- fsniper 13y agoThere is no need for these scenarios. I would just print out some obscure countries ID and / or passport with basic printing utilities. And a boarding pass? Does not even require any special deal.
- bane 13y agoYou haven't flown in a while. Boarding passes are tied to the flight and scanned on boarding. An invalid pass means no getting on the plane. Unless you can generate a valid pass without doing any special deal you've already been thwarted by the simplest part of the security mechanism.
- oijaf888 13y agoReally? Do you know when that policy changed? As of 2012 it was quite possible to fly without a photo id. (e.g. http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/flying-without-a-photo-id/?_r=0 http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/flying-without-a-p...)