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In message <[email protected]>, Christian Kuhtz writes: > >Eliot Lear wrote: >> >> > OK. You need photo-id to get your boarding pass. Since I always use >> > e-tickets, the boarding pass is the only "paper" involved. >> >> Under normal circumstances for flights within the US the FAA seems not >> to require ANY form of ID. It's many of the *airlines* that require ID, >> supposedly in the name of security, but mainly to keep people from using >> other people's tickets. Continental does not enforce an ID requirement >> at SFO, for instance. You stick your credit or frequent flyer card in >> the machine and it spits out your boarding pass, which you then hand to >> the gate agent. > >Even if you did require photo ID for the boarding pass.. I can't recall a >flight in last several years where I was asked to present photo ID and >boarding pass when entering the jet way. > Continental regularly does that at EWR for e-ticket customers. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb http://www.wilyhacker.com
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