<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Hagbard Viking:
This sounds to me like an extraordinarily stupid passenger, who really ought to have known better, and who really should have apologized for her lack of thinking rather than being upset over how she was "treated."
However, I think this story also (again) tells us something about the security procedures and the screeners. I completely fail to see the security aspect of correlating the name on the boarding pass with the name on an ID at the security check point. Checking at check-in and when boarding makes sense, but at the security screening? It's not like they are checking against a wanted list or making sure the ID is not fake, is it? Seems to me that the only thing they really are checking is that they are dealing with ticketed passengers, for the purpose of having to screen fewer people, thus making the screening quicker for everybody. In this case it seems like they wasted everybody's time unnecessarily by enforcing a rule whose purpose is mainly to speed up the screening.
However, again, no sympathy for the stupid woman...</font>
Perfect. You took the words right out of my mouth!
Cordelli- Exactly what does checking the ID against the BP do to make us safer? So what if they found one, stole one, or printed one. Does that put the plane at greater risk? If they wanted to do some evil, couldn't they just BUY THEIR OWN TICKET? As for all the potential terrorists that may be in this country trying to blow up the next plane, I am quite confident that getting on the plane using someone eles's boarding pass is not one of their problems that they are attempting to work through. Why would someone else go throught security, then hand their BP to someone else? Yes it could be done, but to what end? What does it accomplish? Nothing other than the second person would be able to fly on the first's ticket.
And does anyone think that a person or group attempting anything would have any problem obtaining an ID under a different name if they wanted to. I can list at least a dozen websites right now where you can buy a perfectly legal ID for about 50 bucks that will get you through any airport ticketing agent, security screen, and gate check.
Again, it's not really necessary. If you plan on killing yourself, you could just use your own ID.