TSA ID checking is worthless and a guise for airline revenue management
Aug 24, 2014, 10:04 am
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Please feel free to voice your opinion about this and how effective you consider the TSA to be in general in the FBT/FlyerTalk poll on the topic.
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Aug 24, 2014, 11:30 am
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I see no indication that TSA has a real time name checking system at security points. The only "scan" I've consistently seen is the holograph light and sometimes that's nothing more than a handheld flashlight like device, certainly nothing that looks like it's instantly checking a name against a no-fly list.
Just like how the receipt checkers at Costco have the price of every item memorized, so that when they scan your receipt in 1.2 seconds, they can immediately tell if you've been overcharged for something.
Aug 26, 2014, 1:57 pm
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Aug 30, 2014, 3:44 pm
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Sep 1, 2014, 2:44 pm
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