Originally Posted by
YZF_Flyer
In the US, TSA checks identification (the "travel document checker").
In Canada, the airline checks ID at boarding. CATSA only scans boarding passes unless you use a trusted traveller lane in which case they will verify you have a NEXUS card.
The rationale for ID verification is to check names against the no-fly list, prevent the reselling of tickets, and reduce credit card fraud.
So the airline (the GA of the airline) performs the ID check/verification. One of the claimed purposes of the ID check is to check names against the no-fly list.
Originally Posted by
airoli
You misunderstood. Of course the GAs don't validate pax against the no fly list. This is done in the background.
Not according to the above discussion.
Originally Posted by
airoli
But if your name is JOE and you are on the non-fly list, you won't be able to check-in for a flight as JOE. So you go ahead and book a ticket in the name of JIM. Then you show up at the boarding gate, and unless the GA validates that your ID says you are JIM, you have just boarded a plane when you shouldn't have.
Even if the GA validates the ID says the pax is Jim, Joe has still boarded a flight he should not have boarded.
No worriesit doesn't work that well in the US either. And contrary to popular belief, you can board a flight in the US without picture ID... It just takes a lot more intrusive checking....