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Old Feb 15, 2010 | 7:55 am
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Originally Posted by Section 107
If, as we are told, the TSA requires names appear on travel documents exactly as they do identity documents, it seems to me this can cause some problems when TSA robots dont bother to use any common sense.

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The TSA requirements aren't nearly as rigid as you've been led to believe. Different GDSes map the name fields slightly differently so they print differently. It won't actually be a problem while traveling.

Originally Posted by joshwex90
how could they not have gate information?!! (it already took off!)
Just because a plane is in the air doesn't mean that it has an arrival gate assigned. It may have had one and had to change because another plane is stuck at the gate and won't clear in time, for example. I highly recommend you attend a Do that involves a Ramp Tower tour if possible. You'll learn a TON about gate assignments and management of those resources and that would help you understand those bits better.
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