Re: Analysis from a JHU CS Prof
Yes. Photo identification to get your tickets, period, the end.
Huh? You dont need any photo id to get tickets. You need it to get on the plane.
It depends. I know that if you purchase an e-ticket, and you go to the ticketing counter, then you must present a photo id to receive your tickets.
Not correct. If this is e-ticket you never get it. You get a boarding pass only when you want to board the plane. That is when you show your ID. Also, they do not really check the validity of ID. Bouncers check the IDs are the bars better than airlines. They do not even pay attention to the dates the ID expires. Alex
Not correct. If this is e-ticket you never get it. You get a boarding pass only when you want to board the plane. That is when you show your ID. Also, they do not really check the validity of ID. Bouncers check the IDs are the bars better than airlines. They do not even pay attention to the dates the ID expires.
I know it's Europe, which is extremely different to the USA, although with our Schengen agreement, it's starting to become like the States, but I flew to Sweden via Denmark from Amsterdam at the weekend and on the outbound flight and in the inbound flight, I never had ID checked once. The first time was where I just put my amex into a machine, got my boarding pass and walked onto the plane, the 2nd I jsut gave my booking number, got my boarding pass and again onto the plane... I hope they are a little more stringent now, indeed Amsterdam Schiphol is refusing to carry unaccompanied bags. m
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I hope they are a little more stringent now, indeed Amsterdam Schiphol is refusing to carry unaccompanied bags.
I don't care if you fly anonymous as long as o your baggage is x-ray checked o you yourself are security checked when entering the departure zone Quite more interesting is why nobody noticed that 4 airliners where hijacked almost the same time. -- Arnold
At 06:05 PM 9/12/2001, you wrote:
Quite more interesting is why nobody noticed that 4 airliners where hijacked almost the same time.
Not surprising. Aircraft are "flight followed" by a series of control centers across the nation, each responsible for a given chunk of airspace. Something happening in an area controlled by Center "A", for example, wouldn't be passed on to Center "B" (which has it's own problems to work) unless it impacted Center "B". Furthermore, unless someone TELLS Center they're being hijacked, there's no way for a controller - looking at a blip - to know what's up. And any controller can tell you that pilots do some strange things sometimes; that radios fail, that airline operations tell planes to change destinations and the controllers aren't told, etc. In these cases, most of the knowledge that a plane was hijacked came from passengers on phones, not the cockpits. And even if it was known immediately that these planes were being hijacked - what could anyone on the ground do? Dean Robb www.PC-Easy-va.com On-site computer services Member, ICANN At Large
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