In message <3B9FE472.521F1146@kuhtz.com>, Christian Kuhtz writes:

Eliot Lear wrote:

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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