Miss L. Toe wrote:

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , Martin WY
writes

So does this mean that the e-ticket move is nothing more than a move away
from relatively difficult to forge 'tickets' to easy to forge 'tickets'

Doesnt it all come down to what the airline has in its computer at
check-in, irrelevant of what bit of paper with numbers on it that a
person might have in their mits?

I think you are missing the point. It's not about the airline knowing
you are the genuine paid-up passenger for that seat (after all they can
eject you right up to departure if it turns out you are an imposter),
but stopping penniless terrorists from being able to enter parts of the
airport. All they need do is buy a ticket to somewhere, and instant
access!

But the penniles (and multimillionaire) terriorists seem to have given up on
the airline industry (for now). They may return to it once we have to take
our shoes off to get on a bus, or train.

Strangely enough they didn't bother with my sandals either to or from
europe on this trip. FFM