Originally Posted by
Red Tail Fan
Today as we (myself + 2 coworkers) were having our IDs checked with our boarding passes at TUS, the lady next to us realized that she forgot her Drivers License. She then presented a Sam's Club membership card and she was allowed to pass! After screening, I asked for a supervisor and there was none to be found so I asked an agent about this and he said that it was OK because a Sam's Club membership has a picture on it and he said she probably had a Credit Card with her name on it. According to the TSA.gov website, a "Sam's Club Membership Card" is not an acceptable form. To make things even worse, they didn't even make this women go through secondary screening. I believe she was flying on United, because she said she was flying to DEN and continuing on to SFO. This is unacceptable! There were two other witness' in my party that will verify everything. By the way, we are not your average passengers. All 3 of us are former airline employees and myself GSC qualified.
March 25th, 2009 in the a.m. I was heading out of SFO. The woman in front of me presented her Costco card in the security line. Scary to think that the TSA has accepted such a form of ID more than once.