Woman sneaks on SJC-LAX without boarding pass, arrested at LAX
Aug 6, 2014, 4:23 pm
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Agreed. WN not saying much about this. My guess is she snuck thru the door when the gate agent was distracted. Then, the FA decided the count was "close enough" rather than try to figure it out the discrepancy. Just my guess
Aug 6, 2014, 4:45 pm
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I gotten through screening with the wrong boarding pass at least 3 times, twice with my wife's for the same flight and once with an old boarding pass still in my pocket. I have no idea how many times it's happened to my wife, and I doubt she knows. Only once has the screener caught an error. Of course we always have the correct one, we're just a little disorganized.
Aug 6, 2014, 5:06 pm
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Aug 7, 2014, 11:57 am
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Guess not! 
Ah, yes! I remember the movie. I watch Airport '70 movie. The old lady who sneaks to boards a flight without ticket. She went into lavatory and she hidden in a lavatory when the plane is takeoff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_(1970_film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport_(1970_film)
Aug 7, 2014, 4:00 pm
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She was arrested again, this time at the UA terminal at LAX:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/stowaw...214542806.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/stowaw...214542806.html
Aug 7, 2014, 4:35 pm
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I wonder why can't airlines do something like Lufthansa with their E-Boarding System whereby you have to insert your boarding pass for the Boarding Door to open like on a Subway?
Also at TSA if there were a Boarding Pass Kiosk whereby you must insert your Boarding Pass and it will allow you into the TSA Screening Area. The machine would read the Barcode and make sure your name matches your ID that you swiped to activate the machine. If a Red Light Appears or three Beeps then the TSA Agent must intervene or else the Control Gates won't be able to open until the TSA Agent swipes his or her ID and enters the 4 digit code.
Also at TSA if there were a Boarding Pass Kiosk whereby you must insert your Boarding Pass and it will allow you into the TSA Screening Area. The machine would read the Barcode and make sure your name matches your ID that you swiped to activate the machine. If a Red Light Appears or three Beeps then the TSA Agent must intervene or else the Control Gates won't be able to open until the TSA Agent swipes his or her ID and enters the 4 digit code.
Aug 7, 2014, 4:38 pm
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She was arrested again, this time at the UA terminal at LAX:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/stowaw...214542806.html
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/stowaw...214542806.html
Hartman had recently left mental health treatment that she had been ordered to attend and said homelessness drove her to take "desperate measures." She said she feels safer being in airports than in the streets.
I thought I posted this already but it didn't show up.
Aug 7, 2014, 4:56 pm
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She's a con artist. There's a big difference between "being in an airport" and systematically sneaking past security when they are distracted
Aug 7, 2014, 5:38 pm
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I wonder why can't airlines do something like Lufthansa with their E-Boarding System whereby you have to insert your boarding pass for the Boarding Door to open like on a Subway?
Also at TSA if there were a Boarding Pass Kiosk whereby you must insert your Boarding Pass and it will allow you into the TSA Screening Area. The machine would read the Barcode and make sure your name matches your ID that you swiped to activate the machine. If a Red Light Appears or three Beeps then the TSA Agent must intervene or else the Control Gates won't be able to open until the TSA Agent swipes his or her ID and enters the 4 digit code.
Also at TSA if there were a Boarding Pass Kiosk whereby you must insert your Boarding Pass and it will allow you into the TSA Screening Area. The machine would read the Barcode and make sure your name matches your ID that you swiped to activate the machine. If a Red Light Appears or three Beeps then the TSA Agent must intervene or else the Control Gates won't be able to open until the TSA Agent swipes his or her ID and enters the 4 digit code.
In any case, there's no point in doing it. Shouldn't have the BP checker to begin with, and we really don't need to spend another million dollars or more on some technology that's probably not going to work half the time.
Aug 7, 2014, 6:57 pm
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I wonder why can't airlines do something like Lufthansa with their E-Boarding System whereby you have to insert your boarding pass for the Boarding Door to open like on a Subway?
Also at TSA if there were a Boarding Pass Kiosk whereby you must insert your Boarding Pass and it will allow you into the TSA Screening Area. The machine would read the Barcode and make sure your name matches your ID that you swiped to activate the machine. If a Red Light Appears or three Beeps then the TSA Agent must intervene or else the Control Gates won't be able to open until the TSA Agent swipes his or her ID and enters the 4 digit code.
Also at TSA if there were a Boarding Pass Kiosk whereby you must insert your Boarding Pass and it will allow you into the TSA Screening Area. The machine would read the Barcode and make sure your name matches your ID that you swiped to activate the machine. If a Red Light Appears or three Beeps then the TSA Agent must intervene or else the Control Gates won't be able to open until the TSA Agent swipes his or her ID and enters the 4 digit code.
Aug 7, 2014, 9:09 pm
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Another good one: Why doesn't the US have a decent public health system that helps people like that?
I guess it is easuer to blame and fine the victims (here: WN).