domestic flight never matches your flight ticket with your idenfication, how do they know it’s the right person boarding the plane?

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Just theoretical question but for domestic flight within the US, when you enter the gate for security check, you just need to show your ID/ driver license. When you are boarding the plane, they just need to scan your ticket either in paper form or on the phone. They never match the name on your flight ticket with your identification, does that mean, if you buy a non-refundable ticket and you could not make it, you can easily transfer or sell your ticket to someone of interest to travel to the destination?

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How would that person looking to buy your ticket get through security? They would have to have a ticket purchased or you can’t get through security in the first place. So it would be a weird scenario where someone bought a ticket, decided not to fly on their flight and you, also bought a ticket, went through security, and then decided not to get on your flight and sell your ticket to someone else? That’s a very dumb crime to commit. And both people still had to clear TSA so there’s not really a security risk.

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