there are 300 people on the plane (big one) and 80k people watching taylor swift. national security is funny way to put this…

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kube-system 8 hours ago | parent [-]

To be fair, we didn't start having the government screen people on planes when hijackers were merely endangering one plane worth of people. About 3,000 people died and likely tens of thousands of people were injured before we started doing that.

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bdangubic 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Because 3,000 people died I am unable to just transfer my upcoming flight to someone else? Even if this crazy sentence rang through in any way, just this year I had to fly twice "the next day" so-to-speak and basically bought tickets and then flew the next day. 9/11 is as far from a reason why airline tickets are non-transferable as it gets.

	▲	kube-system 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I didn’t make the claim you’re arguing against, that was someone else. But the answer to your question is: partially The reason you can’t change it overall is simply airline policy for business reasons. But the reason you can’t change even a misspelling within the last couple of days before a flight is in fact security related.