Originally Posted by
InkUnderNails
In a casual conversation with a TSO, it was mentioned that they were going to begin enforcing exact matching of ID to to boarding pass, no nicknames allowed.
My question, has anybody run into this?
It has been policy for a while but enforcement was sporadic. When this begins, it will automatically create an escalation where a supervisor will run ones name past the watch list before allowing the screening to continue.
I have run into it. It leads to the same nonsense as always: TSA with an axe to grind may try to subject people to additional identity verification nonsense of the sort that they have been doing for years. There is a practical limit to how many they can hassle over non-"exact matches" without causing the check-in counters or the checkpoints to back-up for a long time.
Then there are the many millions of US persons and even more visitors who have government-issued photo ID that isn't an "exact match" with other valid government-issued photo ID -- that can really annoy some TSA and airline personnel if it doesn't surprise them that people can validly have different IDs that are not an "exact match" in the way the paranoid TSA and some airline personnel may wish it to be.