#1712 - Q&A: Is there a way to trade plane tickets for profit?
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2021
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Today’s listener has a creative idea, but also some sky-high problems to solve. Is it possible to trade unused plane tickets between passengers with different names?
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| 1:05.0 | You know how when you book a plane ticket, you have to provide your personal information. |
| 1:09.4 | You might think, well, of course, that's normal. That's for security, right? I got to be safe, |
| 1:13.6 | so that's why I need to provide all this detailed information about myself. |
| 1:17.3 | And then when I go through the TSA checkpoint, at least in the United States, it's called TSA, but |
| 1:22.9 | in most parts of the world, you have to go through a checkpoint. They usually match your ID with |
| 1:27.3 | your boarding pass. And you think, well, of course, that makes sense because, again, security. |
| 1:32.6 | Well, here's the thing. Maybe some of that process is for security, like actual security, |
| 1:37.2 | but a lot of it is just to enable airlines to make more money. Because if everyone could trade |
| 1:42.8 | their plane tickets or use somebody else's plane ticket, then of course airlines would make less money. |
| 1:47.2 | And until 1996, there was no ID check with boarding passes in the US. The requirement came about |
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