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Old Jan 25, 2016 | 8:12 pm
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
Even at E, after customs you're effectively landside. How do you get through TSA security without a boarding pass for a flight departing from ATL?
I have done this subsequent to the F expansion, and it of course used to be the norm in the old days.

TSA does not require a boarding pass to reclear at E, and for valid reasons. E post customs may be landside as a security issue, but it is an "island" surrounded by airside.

The purpose of the boarding pass check is simply to insure pax are travelling and therefore cut down on the total being screened. No point in this case, as one must have been a valid pax to get to the E TSA checkpoint.

What would happen to any normal transiting pax who does not happen to have a BP? Are they be trapped to live out their life in E post customs?

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