Originally Posted by inpd

Like many of you I use my passport a lot. So after say the 5th year or so it doesn't always swipe when checking in and well before the expiration it never swipes and the check in agents need to enter it manually. This has happened a lot. Never an issue.

A few days at SFO the check in agent could not swipe my passport. I expected her to enter it in manually as others have but she said she could not. Fortunately I am a triple citizen so had another passport which she used.

She warned me next time if I only have the US passport I would be denied boarding.

So what's the official AA policy if your passport does not swipe?