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All passengers will be forced to use digital boarding passes by 2030, predicts airline chief
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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I recently traveled abroad. Flying back to the US I was one of about 10 passengers on my flight that was randomly selected for an extra search that I guess the TSA requires of flights coming into the USA. I couldn’t create my boarding pass in the airlines app ahead of time. I had to check in at the airport, and the airline employed explained that it was because of this random search. He had to print a physical boarding pass, and pointed out it had the code AAAA printed in big letters across the top. This lets everybody know I was one of the lucky random winners.
At the gate, prior to boarding, they called up the names of all of us who had been chosen. They had a list, so they knew who we were. They confirmed our ID again & the boarding pass, then swabbed us down along with our carry-ons and put the swabs in an explosives detector.
No idea why all that required a physical boarding pass, but it did. Until the TSA moves into the modern age they’re likely going to continue demanding paper boarding passes. And we all know how quickly government organizations upgrade the technology they use…
But with digital boarding passes, they can get access to your entire phone. Last time I flew, I tried scanning my digital boarding pass at TSA. The guy stops me and basically just takes my phone to do it himself. I was trying to watch what he was doing with it, but he was sitting behind a terminal. When he handed the phone back, the web browser was open, showing my phone carrier's website, instead of my boarding pass like it was when I handed it to him. There's a small chance it could have been accidental, but if not, I don't know what he was trying to access or why. Very unsettling.
In the latter half of this year, TSA only asks for ID if flying domestically and no longer asks for boarding passes of any form in the airports I've flown through.
In the airports I fly through, TSA each has different procedures for different airports. And within each airport, their procedures randomly vary. The TSA agents at each airport are extremely grumpy and get angry at and act condescendingly towards you for not knowing today's randomly selected procedures.
Story of my life. And they always yell.