Originally Posted by
N615HL
ok...what your saying is I can put one thing Such as Bob Smith at the top (which will be used for boarding pass) as long as I put Robert John Smith at the bottom (which will be used for secure flight) ?
No, vice versa. To avoid complications, you should put a name that matches the one on your ID up top (so the boarding pass prints out with a name that matches your ID and the screening clerk can see that these two documents have the same words printed on them). However, you can put your name in the second part as Funky Winkerbean with a DOB of 1/1/1846 and as long as there are no terrorists on the watch list using that name and DOB, you will breeze through the matching. Not that I am recommending you do that
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Originally Posted by yts8181
However, this does not seem very secure as it is essentially allowing us to use one ID for SecureFlight, while actually going through security with another name (the one on the reservation).
Ding Ding Ding, you are absolutely correct.
Originally Posted by yts8181
Is this going to trigger some flag that would prevent them from printing us the boarding pass?
At the present time it does not seem to do that. The two fields are apparently independent of one another. As you said, this does seem to make the whole system somewhat useless.
Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
I'd strongly recommend not doing the latter! Check in normally (online if possible, otherwise at the kiosk). There's no point in dealing with more people than you have to. Do arrive at the airport early, just in case, but then proceed as normal. Most likely, TDC will process it as normal (perhaps with a "warning"). Second most likely is a selectee designation. It's very unlikely you'll be asked to get a new boarding pass. If that happens, only then go talk to a person at an airline check-in counter and get a new boarding pass. The agent will likely be thinking "idiotic TSA" and make the change.
I agree 100%. I'd also advise printing multiple copies of the BP when she checks in and keep one secure somewhere. That way if all else fails and she cannot get through with her IDs and she can't convince the airline to redo it, she can go back to screening (preferably at a different location, if she's flying out of an airport that has multiple security lines leading to her gate) and just tell them she has no ID and then she can get through with an additional search.