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The Truth About Flying without ID
This is the most informative article I've found to date:
http://www.lookingglassnews.org/prin...p?storyid=7040 I wonder how up to date it is, though, because of some of the date references. Yet another agent in the Midwest admitted that airline personnel were deliberately and knowingly coercing people into showing government ID by saying "it's the law." According to him the reality is that the companies are simply tired of people selling their frequent-flyer tickets. The airlines wanted to stem this practice by checking everyone's ID, but knew there would be BIG problems if they instituted this procedure as a private corporate policy. It was so much more convenient to say it was federal law and make the government the scapegoat. So this policy meets the airlines' private financial goals, and the government's goal of ever-increasing social control. |
I don't recall hearing anything recently about ID requirements changing. It seems up to date to me.
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What other ID are you going to show - your Muppet Club Fan Id?
I've seen students use their DUKE or UNC id at RDU and everyone seems happy with it. God knows it's harder to get in there than into the US! Plus their ID cards are full of anti-tamper stuff, as opposed to my DL. |
I guess a UNC ID would qualify as "government issued"; not the Duke one though.
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