Originally Posted by FWAAA
Don't need a long credit history to fly as a passenger. People fly every day with no credit (or even derogatory credit) histories. Unless you're advocating a minimum FICO score to be allowed to fly (sorry, you're under 680 - no flight for you). Only thing the credit history does (and will ever do) is serve as a flag for extra screening, and the usefulness of that wasted time requires that you assume that the screening will relieve the bum of a "prohibited item" without which their plot will be unsuccessful. One would hope that our nation's security doesn't rely on such fanciful assumptions.
I agree and would like to elaborate.
Imagine the number of credt inquiries this would generate. I think it is common knowledge that the number of inquiries counts against the person's credit score. In other words, excessive flying may ruin your credit if this absurd idea is ever implemented.
Another question: How does a person's credit score correlate with the likelihood of this person being a terrorist?
And back to the basic question: What does extra screening really accomplish?