Originally Posted by
sbrower
Am I correct that it is still easy to use somone else's ticket for domestic travel? I am not posting the method here, but it seems to me that it would be really easy, unless I am missing something. (I am not talking about using any fake id.)
TSA (most of the time
) compares your name on the id with the one on the ticket (bp)--so if these don't match, they probably won't let you through.
Assuming you get beyond this point, airlines rarely check id's anymore when boarding an aircraft, so you can board with someone else's bp.
The only time GA's (might) look for id's is when you are standby and exchanging a bp with NO assigned seat for one with a confirmed seat assignment.
Here is a scenario where what you want
would work:
You buy a REFUNDABLE ticket with your name and use this to pass TSA, but at the gate present the other person's bp. Even if TSA is checking people at the gate, you would still show the bp which matches your id--this scenario could fall apart if TSA has a copy of the
passenger list and is cross-indexing--not very likely.