Originally Posted by
chollie
I don't know of any other country in the world that does an ID check at the checkpoint.
What difference does it make who I am if security does its job properly (ensuring the airplane takes off and lands free from pax-perpetrated actions)?
If security does its job properly, I can't board the plane with anything that can be used to take control of or critically damage the plane - even if I am King of the Bad Guys.
Awww, there you go again, spoiling a perfectly
bad good TSA fantasy with logic.

You've been here long enough to know better!