Gate Check Elimination
 

"In cooperation with the Transportation Security Administration, gate screening of passengers is being eliminated. Passenger identification checks and screening that was formerly done at the gates will now be done at the security checkpoint. As a result, a boarding pass is now required to get through security checkpoints. An E-Ticket receipt or itinerary is no longer adequate. This change has already been implemented in Detroit and is being rolled out to all airports over the next few months. To eliminate uncertainty during this transition period, Northwest recommends that all passengers obtain a boarding pass prior to the security checkpoint. "

Just got this in the mail! This is the smartest thing the FAA has done all year... Now they just need to make it nationwide!

I got an email from CO tonight. Apparently it is happening at EWR as well.

ok .. this is a good idea. But why the boarding pass requirement?

-David

Yeah, that's pretty lame too... It's not like TSA every looked at them before with gate checks... and the person at the security checkpoint was always an airline employee checking them before. It makes ZERO sense.

They need to just get the regular security points in check and let everybody through like before...

Because EasyCheckin can't determine if you just flashed it a real ID or your Sam's Club card http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Because how else will CAPPS work if you don't check in first? Random gate screening isn't going away, it's just moving to the checkpoint. Gotta have a boarding pass to tell if you have been computer selected for Random Checkpoint Groping. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif