<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TrAAin:
As hard as it may be to believe, I find it embarassing. Returning from MCO monday on US 334 (MCO-PHL) I was clearing security and the Argenbright agent simply told me and about 15-20 other people pass through before being reprimanded by her supervisor. I have written letters to Argenbright, US Airways and the Orlando International Airport [..] </font>
Let's see ... you are confused over checkpoint requirements and say you wrote letters to Argenbright, US Airways and Orlando International Airport complaining about an agent when it actually was you who was in the wrong ... well you should find it embarrasing.
As noted by others, it only requires a ticket, a boarding pass, a printed itinerary, or a lounge card to be permitted through to be screened. The point of checking for those items is to only permit people through to be screened who have need to be in the secure area beyond the checkpoint. That reduces the number of people the checkpoint has to screen and hopefully lets them do a better job of it.
A photo-id does little to help security at the checkpoint. And your spew about failure to check ids at the security checkpoint resulting in another incident isn't very clever as the 9/11 hijackers all had photo ids.
While many terminal checkpoints still ask for photo ids to go though, more and more are sensibly skipping the check.
Also, TrAAin, you made another mistake ... and that was thinking this topic has anything remotely to do with "Discussion of the latest frequent flyer program buzz...", which happens to be the charter of "MilesBuzz!".
[This message has been edited by Quokka (edited 06-16-2002).]