<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by MeLike2Travel:
Here's something I've been wondering though. They allow you to go through the security with a printout of your itinerary (at most airports, anyway). So, can't your loved one just print a "fake" itinerary and go through security? I realize this isn't ethical, and against the rules. I would never do it, but thought that if someone really want to see a loved one off, it wouldn't be that hard to do.
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Seriously, I have done this before. My travel agent sends me eticket itineraries by email, so it was not difficult to save on and modify it later for my families to use.
HOWEVER, now that they are requiring boarding passes, it is a little more difficult. What I have had to do is use the online-checking to print out a boarding pass to Adobe Acrobat, save it as a PDF, then delete name, date, and city-specific info and replace with blank fields for me to fill in with the correct formatting. Since the TSA does not scan the boarding pass, but rather check to make sure the city and date is right (and some places match the name to the photo ID) getting past security wouldn't seem that difficult. NOTE: I have not yet tried the latter method yet, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Just make sure that the boarding pass that you've PDF'd is for an airline that specific airport serves...