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minus-squareTomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoWho goes to an airport without a passport?
minus-squareInnerworld@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoPreviously you could just use a driver’s license for domestic flights without the fine.
minus-square3abas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoNot previously, currently. You still can, it just has to be “real id”.
minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoNearly 100% of people traveling domestically…?
minus-squarelurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agothey fly a lot internally, also. sadly, they’re not exactly known for good railway.
minus-squareMinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoit’s also somewhat easier and faster to fly 3,000 miles than to take a train
minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoPeople old enough to remember when you didn’t need any ID at all for domestic flights?
minus-squarethesohoriots@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoAh yes the good old days of seeing how close you could get to the airport before boarding time and watching everyone rippin’ butts in the terminal’s smoking area on their layover
minus-squaredoingthestuff@lemy.lollinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI’m not going to lie, having a crowd of people waiting at the end of the deboarding tunnel for you was freaking awesome.
minus-squarebirdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoPeople in the EU/EEA can fly within the EU using an European ID, rather than passport.
minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoAre you from the future? ;-) The European ID is still stuck in some suggestion phase, so you have to keep using the national IDs or passports for now.
minus-squarebirdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoThat’s what I mean, yes. So what @VibeSurgeon@piefed.social said is right.
minus-squareMultiplexer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoGuessed as much but wanted to make it clear (especially to the non-Europeans present here) that there is no such thing as a European ID (yet).
minus-squareVibeSurgeon@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-24 months agoI’m guessing they meant an ID card issued in an EU country
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoLots of Americans traveling domestically. I was also in awe of that.
minus-squareNoxy@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agopeople who don’t need a passport to go to an airport? this is all new. none of this was required until VERY recently.
minus-squarederanger@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months agoA majority of Americans in any US airport. I have a passport and never take mine, and I fly at least monthly.
Who goes to an airport without a passport?
Previously you could just use a driver’s license for domestic flights without the fine.
Not previously, currently. You still can, it just has to be “real id”.
Nearly 100% of people traveling domestically…?
Who goes to the USA?
they fly a lot internally, also. sadly, they’re not exactly known for good railway.
it’s also somewhat easier and faster to fly 3,000 miles than to take a train
People already in the USA
People old enough to remember when you didn’t need any ID at all for domestic flights?
Ah yes the good old days of seeing how close you could get to the airport before boarding time and watching everyone rippin’ butts in the terminal’s smoking area on their layover
I’m not going to lie, having a crowd of people waiting at the end of the deboarding tunnel for you was freaking awesome.
People in the EU/EEA can fly within the EU using an European ID, rather than passport.
Are you from the future? ;-)
The European ID is still stuck in some suggestion phase, so you have to keep using the national IDs or passports for now.
That’s what I mean, yes. So what @VibeSurgeon@piefed.social said is right.
Guessed as much but wanted to make it clear (especially to the non-Europeans present here) that there is no such thing as a European ID (yet).
I’m guessing they meant an ID card issued in an EU country
Lots of Americans traveling domestically. I was also in awe of that.
people who don’t need a passport to go to an airport?
this is all new. none of this was required until VERY recently.
A majority of Americans in any US airport. I have a passport and never take mine, and I fly at least monthly.