Originally Posted by
Batmanuel
I agree with tsadude... those questions, and especially the "conference call", are only used when somebody doesn't have an ID.
Really? Well here's what I observed one busy January 2010 morning at MCO. Woman directly in front of me had no picture ID. Apparently she concluded it was left in her hotel room. Woman asked random TSA rep wandering through line-up what to do and got the standard reply "we'll make phone calls and confirm your ID a different way." When woman got to TDC, TDCO asked for a credit card (I didn't see a picture on the CC), hemmed and hawed a little, and then let her through with the standard max security scribble that shows the high level cryptographic BP-ID match has been accomplished. Personally I don't care; This faith in picture ID as some sort of security measure has even less basis than the liquid explosive BS.
Originally Posted by
Superguy
But as we know, procedures vary from airport to airport. TSA has stated as such.
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And some airports exceed even that, as the SO? procedure varies from lane to lane. or even varies over time for the same day at the same lane.