Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 21:50:30 -0500
From: Kit Mason <kit at hers.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: papers, please
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Barry Newton wrote:
>
> At 06:37 PM 3/5/02, you wrote:
> >I understand that, but what is he talking about here?
>
> You can't get onto an airplane without identifying yourself.  Though it
> seems to me that it's been that way as long as I can remember.

Not so.  You did not have to show official identification to fly until
the last 20-25 years or so, unless it was an international flight.  I
did not have to show a passport in 1971 to fly to Switzerland, for
instance.  It was common practice before that for people to change
seats, or to buy a ticket in one name and have a different person use
it.  You just told the flight attendant or the airline counter person
that you were using this ticket, and she'd change it to your name, and
all would be fine.

Kit
who used to fly on other people's tickets fairly often.

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