KCM International

n156499000 said:
Except security cameras. Oh, and when you go through TSA, if you already have your seat request card, the TSA person who checked your ID will stamp or sign it to prove it was checked so you can just keep that and use it as proof if you are ever questioned.
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Not to mention a lot of airlines are now supplying TSA with access to the database that houses the ticketing info. If you fly on one of those carriers, when you go through the checkpoint you scan your boarding pass and then the TSA agent verifies it's a valid flight (for that day) and that your ID matches your ticket. It also tags your reservation with the time and location you went through the checkpoint.
 
BobDDuck said:
Not to mention a lot of airlines are now supplying TSA with access to the database that houses the ticketing info. If you fly on one of those carriers, when you go through the checkpoint you scan your boarding pass and then the TSA agent verifies it's a valid flight (for that day) and that your ID matches your ticket. It also tags your reservation with the time and location you went through the checkpoint.
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While TSA has long been scanning boarding passes, I assumed they were simply relying on the fact that ICAO standardized the data format of 2D barcodes about 7 years ago which, in theory anyways, made it easier to use a boarding pass issued by one airline for travel on another by standardizing the data string (think interline and inter-alliance check in). The idea that TSA would have even a one way access to airline reservation systems is a bit disconcerting. Then again, given how much of a pain in the butt it was to get two airline's reservation systems to talk to each other I would be impressed if the TSA found a way to create one system that could easily interface with multiple different reservations systems.
 
Either way, don't get caught non-revving internationally and going through KCM. If you think "they" don't know, you are wrong.
 
I went through regular security in uniform and was told they don't scan boarding passes now...Not sure I even got a straight answer on how I proved that I went through security and not KCM. Played the game correctly and it still didn't make any sense. Rules are rules, but it wasn't super clear how I was going to even prove I did it if it came to it.
 
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