Re: Unanswered questions at Dulles Airport


Clark W. Griswold, Jr. wrote:
mrtravel <mrtravel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

How are the airlines relying on this? The process is easy to workaround.

'Prolly should have rephrased that. The airlines don't check ID on boarding
anymore, which is a good thing, but it negates the argument that they were using
the TSA to enforce the "no ticket transfer" rule.

Well, and this is what makes this whole issue interesting to me.
The
TSA doesn't really care who you are. Better or worse, they only care
what you're carrying. They don't want folks who aren't traveling to
go through, but that's only in a general sense. One can still meet
and greet if you can convince TSA to let you through. But when you
do, you don't even have to show ID, because they don't care. TSA
has put the burden of comparing ID's to the Don't Fly List on the
airlines. It is the airlines, and the airport that really don't want
non-fliers into the secure area.

So strictly speaking (and that's where the pedantry comes in)
those ID checkers and TSA don't really have any relationship, and
shouldn't. Their relationship is predominately because the ID
checkers make sure an orderly flow of people enter the check point
(mostly by directing folks based upon volume). But since TSA
is right there, and the airline folks aren't anywhere to be found, and
the ID checkers are basically low level untrained "day labor" they
seek guidance from whatever authority they can find. I'm sure if
there was a cute cashier working a store near the check point she
could get the same kind of "back up" that the TSA is giving the ID
checkers. Wouldn't make it any more legal, but you could probably
get in just as much trouble, cause when the TSA shows up, you
aren't allowed to ask questions.

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