The Fool wrote:
> The photo-ID requirement is presented as a security measure, but business
> is the real reason. Airlines didn't resist it, even though they resisted
> every other security measure of the past few decades, because it solved a
> business problem: the reselling of nonrefundable tickets. Such tickets
> used to be advertised regularly in newspaper classifieds. An ad might
> read: "Round trip, Boston to Chicago, 11/22-11/30, female, $50." Since
> the airlines didn't check IDs and could observe gender, any female could
> buy the ticket and fly the route. Now that won't work. Under the guise of
> helping prevent terrorism, the airlines solved a business problem of
> their own and passed the blame for the solution on to FAA security
> requirements.
>
> But the system fails. I can fly on your ticket. You can fly on my ticket.
> We don't even have to be the same gender.
Heck, before, if the ticket had been bought with a name appropriate to
*either* gender, it wouldn't have been a problem! :) (Lynn, Leslie,
Kelly, etc. -- I've met people of all those names in each gender.)
Julia
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