I am fed up with this TSA rule where your ID has to match exactly your full name. Why not just provide the TSA with your State ID or Drivers License Number or Passport number at the time of booking. In fact doesn't the TSA know who you are by your first and last name and middle initial? Is the TSA doing this to make us work hard to travel? I mean don't they have access to our government/State ID info already?

If we stored our driver license number state ID number or passport number we could use one Windows Live type system to book our reservations without doing anything. Also most online booking websites only allow for your middle initial.

My point here is if you only wrote Joe Doe in stead of Joe Dave Doe or Joe D Doe and they see your picture and boarding pass isn't this enough to prove who you are? How could they deny boarding to someone with all the proper documents?

I thought Obama is smarter than this. We need a simplified system where upon checkin the agent just swipes our ID or Passport into the computer at checkin just like they do on international flights. This could be setup in the kiosk as well before printing a boarding pass in case the customer made an error it would automatically switch the info. Or at least give us another chance at online checkin to enter our middle name if there is a mistake and select a box stating the info is correct.

What if you make a mistake or someone else who is booking does not know your middle name let alone middle initial like an associate booking your trip using the companies credit card. We are the only ones who know what is exactly printed on the boarding pass.

We are like the only country that does this asking for this info.

What is your opinion on this post?

BTW The next thing the TSA could ask us to do is to recite the ABCs backwards before passing through security. Or asking us where were we in 1998. Or what is the capital of California? See my point?

I fully support having safe flights but there comes a point when it gets a bit too much.