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Airport security?

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CTho9305

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At the metal detectors/xray machines, do they require photo ID again? Do they do any actual verification on your airline ticket until you actually board and they put it through the machine and tear off the boarding pass?
 
both airports i've been to in the last month have checked ID just before you go through the metal detectors. That was the last time i showed my id.
 
Depends. I just flew out of Vancouver and Edmonton yesterday. They didn't ask for photo ID until I was boarding the plane at both airports. Just the boarding pass to get through security.
 
Originally posted by: pyonir
wth? trying to get in with a shoe bomb?
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Does it matter? Someone else somewhere definitely is, and if some random idiot on ATOT realizes there is a hole, you can be damn sure that someone studying the system will find those holes too.
 
Originally posted by: CTho9305
At the metal detectors/xray machines, do they require photo ID again? Do they do any actual verification on your airline ticket until you actually board and they put it through the machine and tear off the boarding pass?
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All these questions sound a little suspicious to me...time to report you to Homeland Defense! 😛
 
Originally posted by: CTho9305
Hmmmm....
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I read the first 3 sentences of that and realized it was VERY out of date, and therefore, probably entirely wrong. Check-in doesn't ask the baggage questions anymore.

As for your original question, it differs between airlines and airports. At JFK flying JetBlue, they check your ID at check-in, at the security checkpoint, and when you board the plane. Last time I flew USAir from LaGuardia, they only checked my ID at check-in.
 
It's even better if you have a newborn with you. No hassle at all, they even take you out of line and move you to the front of the line.

BTW-Yes, you need ID and yes, you need an airline ticket to get through security and get to the gates. I've never been searched.

Once I packed a carry on bag (pre 9/11) for a business trip I was taking and forgot to check the bag. I had used the bag a couple weeks earlier as a shooting bag and left a couple of loaded magazines in the bottom of the bag. The person doing the screening asked if he could look in my bag and I said "sure, no problem". I was horrified when he pulled out two clips loaded with .45 ACP rounds. I thought I would be hauled off to security but I explained the situation to them and said that I never intended to bring them with me, I asked what would happen now and the guy paused for a minute and said "well, you can't take them on the plane with you." At that point I breathed a sigh of relief and he said my wife could pick them up on the way out (this was back in the day when your spouse could accompany you to the gate). I bet if I tried that now the outcome would be quite different. This was at Lindburgh Field (San Diego International Airport) in San Diego, CA BTW.
 
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