Originally Posted by FWAAA
The government rules that require that airlines ask their customers to produce photo ID does not require that the airlines refuse transportation to those lacking such ID; failure to possess or produce ID simply results in the full SSSS treatment.
Right. But the airline is free to, of their own initiative, decline to transport you at their own discretion. Or, at least, that's what airline representatives have claimed to me. The problem is that airline security staff often view anyone who declines to present ID on privacy grounds as "suspicious, subversive characters" and thus might refuse transport. So if you absolutely have to get there, I would be leary of following the "don't show ID and fly selectee" route -- it might work 95% of the time, but that 5% is a ......