<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Quokka:
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.
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Why is the elite line the "wrong" line? Ummm, not everyone, in fact, not even everyone on FT, has elite FF status.
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Reading through this thread, it looks like FT'ers berating a fellow FT'er for neglecting to have photo ID with oneself at all times. Those of us who know what the "security" rules are (including the large variance in said rules), and who fly very often, or at least pay attention when we do fly, are unlikely to do such a thing.
Reality check -- not everyone reads FlyerTalk! In fact, most people haven't ever heard of FlyerTalk. I know this site is popular, but come on, let's look at this from the perspective of the typical air passenger.
Yes, most air passengers know that you must have photo ID to fly on a commercial plane. That's because the requirement has been around for a few years, and it's always been required at check-in, and now recently also at the gate. Naturally, if you have photo ID at check-in, you also have photo ID at the gate, unless you give your ID to your husband and he takes a different flight, which is quite uncommon.
It's perfectly logical for one person in a traveling party of two to keep both ID's, when one of them has a purse with lots and lots of "stuff" in it (I'm not a woman, but I'm married, so I know how much junk you gals can stuff in there
). My wife and I do exactly the same thing -- I put her NY driver's license right under mine in my wallet. I have never lost my driver's license or credit card; my wife has lost both of them, twice, so far.
Calling someone an idiot for not being 100% up-to-date on the "security" rules of flying, which seem to change from day to day, smacks of
elitism, and I'm not talking about 25,000 credited miles per annum on a single carrier.