Originally Posted by alex0683de
Would you feel better about it if the airlines came all out and said: we won't issue you a boarding pass if you can't prove your name matches on the name on the ticket, and we will not let you on our plane unless you can prove that your name matches the name on the boarding pass you hold?
If it was all airline rules, and all airline personnel/contractors checking IDs, and the government was completely uninvolved, would that change anything in your opinion of the procedure?
Airlines would be within their rights to do that, but they probably wouldn't have in the same way that restaurants don't ask you to show your ID when you are paying with a credit card at your table.
It is the sort of intrusion that puts off customers in a hospitality based industry. Now, on the other hand, if you can convince people that it isn't you who are asking, but rather that the government is mandating it..