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<p>If you are younger than 18, then you don’t have to have government issued ID. 18 and over requires gov’t issued ID. Being 17 makes a lot of difference.</p>
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<p>Yea, see, that didn’t happen on the first leg of the trip. She had no problem at her originating airport; they looked at her school ID, and let her through. Doesn’t mean she won’t have a problem here, though.</p>
<p>My s had to leave his drivers license when checking out pool (billiards) equipment at a restaurant one spring break, and forgot to retrieve it. DIdnt realize it was missing until we got to security at the airport. He had to go through extra security but was able to make it through TSA with his college ID and some credit cards and the extra screening. However, that was before any regulation change that Icarus mentioned. </p>
<p>You might want to PM patsmom. She might have some insight into this issue. Also, I think if you are there to help them through security and she has her boarding pass from the first flight she took to come see you (returning home on a round trip flight seems to be less of a red flag for security than flying one way from one’s home town), she will probably be ok.</p>
<p>One last idea- Can anyone email you a copy of her drivers license (I realize its in her car-- can anyone get at it and scan a copy?) or is there a way for her parent to email (scan) her passport for you to print out and bring with you? That might help too.
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<p>patsmom here – but sorry, I don’t have any advice for teriwtt. I work for a different branch of DHS and am not familiar with TSA regs other than what is posted in this thread. However, I think a lot depends on the particular agent you get. I doubt that the girl will be refused at security, but do expect some extra questioning. Be sure to leave extra time to account for that so she doesn’t miss the flight.</p>
<p>This is just the reason we have a copy of the kids (and our own) passport and driver’s license. I copied my son’s when he went abroad years ago, just in case he lost everything. When my daughter went abroad we actually needed her as her purse was stolen. Luckily, her passport was not in it, but her license was. It was real easy to email her a copy if she were to need it, not that she needed her license while abroad! Since I had her license information, she was able to order a new one online and it arrived home before she did, allowing her to drive once home.</p>
<p>One of those lessons learned moment. I bet your daughter’s friend will not forget her wallet again!</p>
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It is TSA … but this is far from a unique problem … I would guess it happens hundreds of times a day at a major airport … the airlines deal with all the time and must know the drill.</p>
<p>I showed up at the airport missing my DL once. If you have any photo ID with your picture and this matches you and your boarding pass, and explanation of what happened, you may be questioned and searched more thoroughly, but you will get to your plane. Go with the kids as an adult to vouch, if needed. This happens more than you think.</p>
<p>When DH and I were flying out of Tampa last Dec., he realized as we stood in the line at the ticket counter that he’d forgotten his DL (it was a really early pre-morning-coffee flight). Delta would not even issue him a boarding pass, and they never mentioned any alternatives; we didn’t even make it to TSA. We had to book a later flight and go home to get the DL.</p>
<p>We have never ever forgotten to check to make sure we have our DLs again! (I even bought two of those thingies you hang around your neck to hold your DL, passport, e-tickets, boarding pass, etc., which we are now in the habit of putting on before we leave the house for the airport.)</p>
<p>My daughter’s wallet was stolen a few days prior to leaving school. I faxed her a copy of her passport front page and a copy of her birth certificate. She went through security at RDU to DFW and they were perfectly satisfied with only her college ID. Never had to show her other documentation. This happened about 3 weeks ago.</p>
<p>so, teriwtt, what happened?</p>
<p>It’s all good news. Their flight will be landing within 20 minutes, with both of them on it.</p>
<p>I dropped them off at departure and went to the cell phone lot and told them to call me once they got through security (or if they didn’t). D2 said they did pull her aside and ask a lot more questions than they did on the originating flight of the trip, but they let her through. They kind of looked at me like “we can handle this” when I offered to come in, but were OK with me waiting until I heard from them to leave the area; as a bonus, I didn’t have to pay to park in the garage.</p>
<p>I don’t know what we would have done. Her car was in an economy parking lot in one town, about 70 miles from where she goes to school, and coincidentally where her parents live. Someone (with keys to her car) would have had to drive to this airport, get into her car, get the driver’s license, and either fax a copy (or overnight it). I don’t even know if anyone else has keys to her car. </p>
<p>Like someone said upthread… I’m sure she will never do this again (and hopefully it will have concerned D2 enough that she will never let it happen… ever!).</p>
<p>Glad all worked out well for you, teriwtt. But bummer, mudders_mudder. We always print our boarding passes out at home so dont deal witthe employees at the counter (unless checking bags).</p>
<p>^^ Haha! You’d think I would have learned that lesson by now. I can never remember which airlines let you print the boarding passes ahead of time. (Maybe they all do now–?) I’ll have to remember to check that from now on. Excellent idea.</p>
<p>So glad this worked out!</p>
<p>And Mudder: virtually all of them do, beginning 24 hours before your flight. And if you’re flying Southwest, the sooner you do it, the better your place in line when it’s time to board.</p>
<p>Booklady - yes; I’ve gotten to the point when I’m flying Southwest, I set my phone alarm for exactly 24 hours prior to flight so I don’t forget to check in asap!</p>
<p>So the airport screening all ended up working out OK; but on their way back to campus from Philly they hit a horrible hail storm on the turnpike. I’m just thankful they were in a car on their way back to campus, and not on the way back to our house because security wouldn’t let her through.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who helped alleive my anxiety last night! I definitely felt more calm driving them to the airport this morning.</p>
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<p>This only works if you can remember why you set the alarm in the first place. Otherwise you wind up annoyed at whoever set the alarm clock for such an odd hour because it scared the living daylights out of you, so you turn it off in a huff and then a few hours later it hits you. It’s all very embarrassing plus you wind up in a middle seat for a five hour flight.</p>
<p>Or so I’m told.</p>
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<p>You sound like you’ve had experience with this.</p>
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Another of life’s mysteries cleared up! Thank you, Booklady! I flew on Southwest for the first time just a couple of weeks ago. (My kids, who live out West, have been singing Southwest’s praises for years; but Southwest doesn’t fly out of the two airports DH and I use most frequently.) When we tried to get a boarding pass for the return trip at the ticket counter, we couldn’t. Turns out the flight was oversold. Southwest re-booked us and gave us a voucher worth ~$800 toward future travel. We even arrived home within minutes of the original overbooked flight. Gotta love it.</p>
<p>(Glad your story had a happy ending, too, teriwtt.)</p>
<p>Our grad student fly back population figured out very quickly that one could pay off student loans with the vouchers resulting from volunteering to be bumped. If you are not in a hurry, always volunteer on a busy flight. </p>
<p>How did the payoff happen? Interviewing companies usually reimbursed one for the cost of travel to a fly-back interview - at full price of the ticket. Two companies I asked considered the inconvenience the you experienced by being bumped as irrelevant to the reimbursement equation. Many companies feel the same about their own employees being bumped; the voucher is payment for the pain of waiting and is irrelevant to the corporate accounting system.</p>
<p>IE Always volunteer to be bumped and carry a book.</p>