Originally Posted by PHLviaUS
Real airlines bar code or mag stripe scan the passes as you turn them in to ensure validity. They do not have to stop, call out names, and hold up the works.
Last month at ATL I was boarding a US flight back to PHL when I was stopped by the GA because he remembered a passenger having just boarded ahead of me with the same seat. Turns out that passenger had boarded the wrong flight. The GA was wide awake when I was boarding, but I guess he was in la la land minutes earlier.
Photoshopped boarding passes will almost certainly get you past security, but not onto a plane. But why go through the effort, and the risk of serious trouble if you're caught, when two or three easy/legal methods have been listed above?
Are there still airports that don't scan (bar code or mag strip) boarding passes - I haven't seen one in quite a while.