[longtermmemmory]

actually Northwest should be either firing the person who wrote the code for them OR they should be getting a MASSIVE refund from the outsourced corporation.

[kittycatonline.com]

actually Northwest should be either firing the person who wrote the code for them OR they should be getting a MASSIVE refund from the outsourced corporation.

If you take a look at the, uh, fine performance of Northwest Airlines, heh, well, they're lucky to be able to afford the paper to print the passes on in the first place. Things are pretty rough for Northwest.

[supercat]

Are these the same sort of passes as one prints from their web server? If so, it would be trivial for someone to capture the formatting, substitute arbitrary text for the passenger name, etc. and put random data in the barcode. Since nobody at the security checkpoint actually validates any of the data, such a phony boarding pass would get one into the terminal.

Not sure what real security weakness that exposes, though. From what I can tell, the purpose of restricting the terminal to ticketed passengers was to reduce the number of people going through the security checkpoint. Unless so many people print phony boarding passes as to flood the checkpoints, I don't see the problem.