I fly quite a bit, enough to be platinum elite. Since June I've used a passport card for ID. I don't like to use either my DL or my passport (book) for domestic flights because if I lose them, it's much more problematic, than losing a passport card.

I haven't had any problems with the passport card being accepted as ID by TSA - until yesteday - at The Peoria International Airport.

They refused to accept it. I told them why I choose to use it rather than a DL. If I lose my DL, I won't be able to rent a car for my business. I explained that I've used it in MANY other airports in the US for domestic air travel and that I understand it to be an acceptable form of a government photo ID. They insisted it could not be used for air travel anywhere. It could only be used for land & sea travel between the US, Canada, Caribbean & Bermuda, and pointed to the wording on the back of the card. They insisted that all other airports were in error in accepting it in the past and they were the correct ones.

I was forced to use my DL.

Since then I've come back & read several of these threads on the subject. I've found & printed pages from the TSA website that state it is an acceptable form of ID.

I'm curious, for those of you who use the passport card at airports, do you also carry a copy of the page from the TSA website to prove it is an acceptable form of ID??

Part of me wants to write TSA at PIA and send them a copy of this page so they learn what's correct. The other part of me doesn't want to take the time to do so, and hope I don't have to go to Peoria again.

It seems it's always the TSA in small airports where their power goes to their heads! The passport card is not that new any more. I thought by now, I wouldn't have this problem.