Airport security

I've never quite understood why concourse access is limited to
ticketed passengers. Even ignoring the ease of obtaining a ticket,
what threat does this address?

And why the photo ID requirement? I suspect the main reason is that
the airlines jumped on this to stop the practice of reselling tickets.


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Talent hits a target no one else can hit.
Genius hits a target no one else can see.

....Arthur Schopenhauer

Miss L. Toe wrote:
> "Cal" <kfs@wrt.inv> wrote in message
> news:83klg2d1fo77lkoebqc9srnj6jk9557ru6@...
> > I've never quite understood why concourse access is limited to
> > ticketed passengers. Even ignoring the ease of obtaining a ticket,
> > what threat does this address?
> >
>
> It reduces the number of people who need to be screened.
>
> > And why the photo ID requirement? I suspect the main reason is that
> > the airlines jumped on this to stop the practice of reselling tickets.
> >
>
> Not every airport requires photo Id.

And then some airport personnel (ticket desk agents, and TSA guards)
will insist on a driver's license, and accept nothing else, while the
posted guidelines list a number of forms of ID that are supposed to be
acceptable. As a semi-disabled person who does not drive, I have
plenty of other ID - govt photo and other - but always get routed to
the side for the frisk search anyway. I bring with me printouts from
the TSA and airline sites listing what is acceptable ID, but the
droids on the spot won't even deign to read them.

"Miss L. Toe" <missltoemissltoe@m> wrote:
>> I've never quite understood why concourse access is limited to
>> ticketed passengers. Even ignoring the ease of obtaining a ticket,
>> what threat does this address?
>
>It reduces the number of people who need to be screened.

Why would they need to screen people who have no tickets?


--

Talent hits a target no one else can hit.
Genius hits a target no one else can see.

....Arthur Schopenhauer

Cal wrote:

> "Miss L. Toe" <missltoemissltoe@m> wrote:
>
>>>I've never quite understood why concourse access is limited to
>>>ticketed passengers. Even ignoring the ease of obtaining a ticket,
>>>what threat does this address?
>>
>>It reduces the number of people who need to be screened.
>
>
> Why would they need to screen people who have no tickets?
>
>

They would not. However since there would not be an area that they
mistakenly consider "sterile" they would have to manage to screen each
passenger as they board the flight.