Originally Posted by
Halo2012
For my career I travel extremely frequently. Well about 5 months ago I caught a cab to the airport and forgot my drivers license at home, need less to say I could not check in for my flight. Pretty rough day!
If you think about it, not everyone has a drivers license (it may come as a shock in the US!). Even the TSA says:
"We understand passengers occasionally arrive at the airport without an ID, due to lost items or inadvertently leaving them at home. Not having an ID, does not necessarily mean a passenger won’t be allowed to fly. If passengers are willing to provide additional information, we have other means of substantiating someone’s identity, like using publicly available databases."
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtrav...documents.shtm