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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Australian here: we can still enter domestic terminals if we aren’t flying, no ID required just have to go through the metal detector.

And then when boarding flights nobody checks ID at all. Some airlines /may/ check when you’re checking in at the counter but most airlines now have automated kiosks and they don’t check ID. Plus you can always just check in online and not check in baggage.

It would be incredibly easy here (although not at all legal, don’t do it kids) to give a mate or family member a ticket with your name on it and not have to pay silly name change fees.

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