Originally Posted by sluggoaafa
OT and curious....please help me understand.
I'm curious how everyone seems to think that checking the ID (State, Government, or Passport) against the BP is 'more' of a revenue protection, not a security protection.
ID says John P. Public
BP says Sally Q. Private
So "Custodian Checkpoint" person allows this person to slip by because they weren't doing their job properly.
How is that a Revenue Issue?
Being from a military background and being in situations to where I had to check IDs to allow people into secure locations, if I allowed Mr. Public into an area with Mrs. Private's pass, that is a security breach.
Same thing at an airport. Allowing someone with a mismatched ID and BP is a Security issue, not Revenue Protection issue.
deal.
Of course it is a revenue issue. People could buy restricted fares, have something unexpected come up and sell the ticket to someone else and without id checking there was no problem. This is I guess a breach of the agreement between the customer and the airline. It is also tangentially related to security, since the wrong person is listed on the itineary in case of a plane crash.
Now, broad ID checking for flying or pretty much anything accessible by the general public is doomed to fail.
In your past military career you had the simple job of checking the ID to verify that the person was part of a very small population with access to the facilites and keeping the rest of the world out.
With flying you now have the impossible job of keeping a very small population of bad people out and letting the rest of the world in. The number of unknown threats in the rest of the world is large enough that ID checking is not cost effective. That is, you will not reduce risk of security incidents noticeably with this policy.