The wife and I are flying to Florida from O’Hare on Sunday morning, and it just dawned on me that neither of us have our current ID on our drivers licensce. Does anyone think that will be an issue? Now I think I’ve flowen once with the wrong address on my ID, but that was pre 9/11, from Mitchell Intl and with a paper tickect. This is post 9/11, from O’hare with an E-ticket.
I’m guessing it’s not going to be an issue, I know I should get it updated today just in case, I’m just wondering if anyone else has had an issue with it.
Have either of your names changed? Are the driver’s licenses expired? I doubt any airport or TSA personnel will notice other differences like address changes.
Photo ID requirements appear to be at the discretion of the individual airlines. Neither the FAA or the TSA websites provide any ID requirements, and cursory check of Boston Logan’s website indicates it is up to the airlines.
United Airlines only requires a valid, unexpired government-issued photo identification (federal, state or local). It could be argued that an address that is not current renders the ID invalid, but for practical purposes, I doubt that no anyone is going to notice.
You would be guessing wrong.
If they notice that you ID is expired, you will have issues.
For some reason they seem to think you identity expired when your license did.
While I did not see a direct answer to your question on the TSA website (www.tsa.gov) I did find this
If you mean your license is good, but address has changed, don’t sweat it. they do not verify your address as part of the check in procedure.
Great, it’s not expired, and the names are the same. I think I’ll just stick a mortgage statement in my pocket just in case. I believe that’s one of the things you need to show you have a new address when you change it. It’s got both our names on it and our current address.
Thanks a bunch, I feel better now that I don’t have to stand in line at the DMV. And being Friday, I can’t really put it off any longer.
What’s the point? All they will do is verify the name on the boarding pass against the name on the unexpired ID. It matters not to them if the address has changed since they won’t check for it. We moved since we got our driver’s licenses. The old address is listed. They never ask and I never volunteer. Don’t ask; don’t tell.
We had to cut a trip short because of a death in the family about a year ago. My wife packed her driver’s license in the wrong place and panicked. No big deal. So we got hand-screened, but they never verified the boarding passes against any other ID we were carrying! So we managed to go through security never having to prove who we were. (She did find her driver’s license after we got to the gate.)
I’ve flown quite a bit in the last year and I’ve deliberately switched my IDs. Sometimes I’ve used my driver’s license and sometimes my government ID. No problems in either case. I find that a bit disturbing since my driver’s license is issued by the state and it’s the standard hard plastic credit card type. My government ID is hand-made, hand typed, with Polaroid image, no address and laminated poorly. I get through security faster with it than with my driver’s license.
How will they even know that the address is old? There is no address on your airline ticket. The things that they check for are[ol]
[li]Does the name on the ID match the name on the ticket?[/li][li]Does the photo on the ID match the face of the person holding it?[/li][li]Is the ID expired?[/li][/ol] You’ll be fine.
When you go through airport security, none of this matters. All they do is make a visual check and comparison of your name against the boarding pass and your ID. We have yet to see it where they will have a data terminal the rent-a-cops use to do any other type of verification.
And depending on a variety of circumstances, it’s entirely possible your ID will never get matched against any database. On my last set of flights during the new year holiday, I printed my e-tickets at the passenger counter, the attendant checked my bags and that was it. She never asked for an ID to verify I was the same person whose name was on the e-tickets. Airport security did a visual match among ID, boarding pass and the real me, but never verified against any database (because they don’t do that at security).
I work for an airline. Ticket counter and at the gates. Trust me, as long as the name and photo match and it’s not expired, you’re good to go.
Unless you are going international.
Get your pasport. 1/23 has come and gone. Really. No exceptions. I don’t care that it’s your Daughters wedding. There is no way I can get you to Cancun unless you have a pasport.
Infant? Even a newborn needs a pasport. No exceptions. Really…