I don't understand how he counterfeited the ticket since the system creates truly unique IDs that are fit for the flight and gate.
Meaning, even if you had a legit ticket but it was the wrong flight, when they scan your ticket, it automatically lets them know and makes a beep alarm (so even if they don't look at the screen, they can hear it).
He'd have to have insider knowledge of the unique identifiers to forge the ticket to get through the scanner. Or the airline clerk didn't give a shit about the alarm.
You might have misread. The stadium is owned by American Airlines (why a recently bailed out company can put there name on it is a different story). I don't believe air travel was ever involved. The ticket was for admittance to the stadium. I would think scalping a ticket would be far harder to trace than forging one, but I'm not in the business of kidnapping people.
Someone else responded yesterday and pointed that out that I confused the name of the stadium for a flight from Dallas to OKC.
Thanks for the reply, however. Was wondering what American Airline tickets had to do with the story. :D
Someone probably has the tickets listed for sale online somewhere and idiotically included the bar code on the ticket in a photo of the tickets and the perp used that bar code and entered early enough that the real ticket had not been used yet
It was a basketball game not an airport.
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