Originally Posted by
chollie
?? Confirming names (verbally) and boarding passes has nothing to do with the no fly list or the watch list, at least not at this time. The TDC has no special hardware that enables him/her to scan your BP and check it against a government database to verify that the name on the BP isn't on the NFL or watch list.
Originally Posted by
SeriouslyLost
I could be wrong, but I suspect that the person sitting at the desk checking boarding passes and ID's does not remember the names on the no fly list.
No, the TDC cannot check your name against the list. But there are other places in the process where your name
is checked against the list which could easily be thwarted by simply using a boarding pass with a name other than the passenger's own. So, in addition to revenue protection for the airlines, the TDC checking your boarding pass and ID is intended to prevent someone on the list from gaining access to the secure area using a boarding pass that wasn't originally issued in his own name.
So, like I said, I don't agree with the underlying policy - at all - but there is a logical reason why they match boarding passes to ID's.