Passports required to fly ?

[pooh2001]

Has anyone heard of or know if passports by US citizens are required to fly on USA flights around the USA (not go outside the USA boarders) ?

 

[ducklite]

Not at this point in time. In the future it won't surprise me if they are required as proof of ID for air travel in the US.

Anne

 

[paladin]

A government-issued photo ID is required for all adults, but it does not have to be a passport.

 

[pooh2001]

So - driver licenses are OK - as in before ?

I had my hair cut today and a person said in Jan 2007 - all US citizens needed a passsport to travel within the USA. We fly in March 2007 to Florida.
I do not want to rush passports, if we need them.

 

[tjmw2727]

So - driver licenses are OK - as in before ?

I had my hair cut today and a person said in Jan 2007 - all US citizens needed a passsport to travel within the USA. We fly in March 2007 to Florida.
I do not want to rush passports, if we need them.

There is a change in Jan of 07 requiring US citizens to have a passport to enter and return from Canada, Mexico and the Carribbean and maybe a couple more places.

TJ

 

[CleveRocks]

There is a change in Jan of 07 requiring US citizens to have a passport to enter and return from Canada, Mexico and the Carribbean and maybe a couple more places.

TJ

Exactly.

The change has to do with countries where we could formerly go and return with only a driver's license or birth certificate. But within the US of A, NOTHING has changed in terms of ID requirements.

 

[DVC-Don]

Not required, but I use mine as ID when traveling via air within the US. More reliable than state issued ID's.

 

[CarolA]

I don't carry mine unless I am required to. I have no desire to pay the $80 or so to get a replacement if it's lost.

 

[ducklite]

I don't carry mine unless I am required to. I have no desire to pay the $80 or so to get a replacement if it's lost.

Or destroyed after you put it through the washer in the back pocket of your jeans. Not that I would ever do anything like that...

Anne

 

[bavaria]

I don't carry mine unless I am required to. I have no desire to pay the $80 or so to get a replacement if it's lost.

I consider $80 a bargain - I just paid 110 Euros for mine, which never leaves my purse. (Although EU passports are valid for 10 years - I think that US passports are 5 years?)

 

[MrsToad]

When we renewed recently, US passports for ages 16 and over were good for 10 years while passports for those under 16 were only good for 5 years.

 

[bavaria]

When we renewed recently, US passports for ages 16 and over were good for 10 years while passports for those under 16 were only good for 5 years.

Wow so you DO get a bargain! $80 for 10 years vs the $140 (110 euros) for 10 years that I just paid.....

 

[CarolA]

Well don't go by me. It's apparently been a while since I got mine....

From the official info

Age 16 and older: The passport application fee is $55. The security surcharge is $12. The execution fee is $30. The total is $97.


(Now I have no idea what all those fees are. What's the difference been an application fee and an execution fee.. And let me guess the $12 goes to finance the TSA??? More money down the drain!)

 

[bavaria]

Well, I just realized that my $140 gets me into and allows me to work in a whole raft of countries, so I'm ok with that!

 

[Tara]

Age 16 and older: The passport application fee is $55. The security surcharge is $12. The execution fee is $30. The total is $97.


(Now I have no idea what all those fees are. What's the difference been an application fee and an execution fee.. And let me guess the $12 goes to finance the TSA??? More money down the drain!)

From what I can tell based on writing the checks earlier this year, the $55 goes to the State Department. The $30 execution fee goes to the entity that processes the initial paperwork, like the courthouse or post office. The $12...who knows. Probably to finance the TSA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Of course, if you wait until 2 weeks before a trip to London, then your US passport costs about $225, including overnight shipping both ways, an expediting fee to the government, and a fee to the expediting service that walks it over for same-day processing...

 

[CarolA]

From what I can tell based on writing the checks earlier this year, the $55 goes to the State Department. The $30 execution fee goes to the entity that processes the initial paperwork, like the courthouse or post office. The $12...who knows. Probably to finance the TSA Lifetime Achievement Award.

Of course, if you wait until 2 weeks before a trip to London, then your US passport costs about $225, including overnight shipping both ways, an expediting fee to the government, and a fee to the expediting service that walks it over for same-day processing...

I really wish I hadn't clicked on that link..... The TSA was already on my list of agenices that seem to be wasting a LOT of money. Now I have even more proofl

 

[kaytieeldr]

Or destroyed after you put it through the washer in the back pocket of your jeans. Not that I would ever do anything like that...

Anne

Well, no... not in the future, anyway...

 

[disneyldwjr]

So - driver licenses are OK - as in before ?

I had my hair cut today and a person said in Jan 2007 - all US citizens needed a passsport to travel within the USA. We fly in March 2007 to Florida.
I do not want to rush passports, if we need them.

That person is incorrect. You will need them to go out of the country to places like Jamaica or other countries where all that was needed was a Birth Cert. and a photo ID (government issue). It amazes me how people only half hear the news. (not you!!!!).

 

[pxlbarrel]

Actually, to be a bit of a nitpicker...

It's so that Americans can re-enter the U.S. not so that they can go into those countries which they can enter now with only photo id and a birth certificate. Just a minor bit of wordsmithing here.

I suspect that because those countries want to make sure you can return home, that they will be instituting the passport rule themselves (one country can't change the rules without the others having to following suit).

I've travelled with a passport for years now...it just makes crossing the border so much easier.

 

[Lewisc]

The Federal Government is trying to require that the states follow specific security procedures with regards to photo licenses to make them harder to forge. Some states, I think NH, don't want to pay for the expense. There as been some speculation that the Federal Government is considering, if they lose, not accepting licenses from those states as valid government issued photo ID. Residents of those states would have to use a passport for photo ID.

I don't see any way this would happen but that's what some articles are referring to.