<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by cblaisd:
At SFO, I was in the UA security line ~ 7 p.m. The woman in front of me had only a boarding pass. No purse, no carry-on, no pockets (that I could discern). Only a boarding pass. The agent checking i.d.'s and b.p.'s before the x-ray said "I need to see your i.d." She said "It's with my husband at gate 78 -- we're just connecting here and I just ran out to have a smoke. He has my purse and i.d." </font>
This was UA domestic at SFO??
Well obviously she went through the wrong line ... I've noticed UA's SFO elite bypass line has been quite happy to let people through to the metal detectors & X-rays by simply showing a boarding pass, no ID (just like the letter of regs say). Three of the 4 times I went through there in the last 2 weeks, a boarding pass was all it took.
Now the elite queues at UA LAX are a different matter. At LAX everyone first goes through the same boarding pass/itinerary checkpoint and they insist on IDs there. Then there was a separate queue for elites after the boarding pass check to wait for the metal detectors.
[This message has been edited by Quokka (edited 01-21-2002).]