Airlines long wanted to eliminate the secondary market in airline tickets, in order to enforce their revenue management strategies.
As a result airlines have long wanted requirements for passengers to have to show ID in order to use airline tickets, in order to make airline tickets non-transferable.
ID requirements limit the ability to do that, although they don’t make it impossible.
But when did the ID rule become a government requirement?.
In his book, Against All Enemies, he wrote that President Clinton planned to see the families of victims of the airline disaster.
The ID requirement is one of the things his staff came up with:.
And the ID requirement, like the No Fly List, wasn’t actually enshrined in law but rather by executive fiat. »