Ive never once been asked to show ID at the gate on any domestic flight in the US and fly several times a year. On this most recent trip I was asked to show my passport when boarding in Honolulu to Tokyo and again when boarding in Osaka to Honolulu but that's it.

Someone else mentioned that gate agents can see your photo when they scan your boarding pass and someone else pointed out that you have to already be cleared by TSA pre-check to even make it this far, so it's not something I'm even concerned about. I was just answering the question of how someone could swap places with a ticket holder to board a flight.

Ive never once been asked to show ID at the gate on any domestic flight in the US and fly several times a year. On this most recent trip I was asked to show my passport when boarding in Honolulu to Tokyo and again when boarding in Osaka to Honolulu but that's it.

Someone else mentioned that gate agents can see your photo when they scan your boarding pass and someone else pointed out that you have to already be cleared by TSA pre-check to even make it this far, so it's not something I'm even concerned about. I was just answering the question of how someone could swap places with a ticket holder to board a flight.

I think they're probably worried aboutnall or those things.

I think that's more about making sure they know who is flying...it's more about accountability than it is managing who is travelling. So much of our airport security is performative, it doesn't actually matter... They don't care that Bob blew the plane up, they care that they can put a picture on TV saying "This is who did it"