That's one way of looking at it. Over the years that price has risen and it's getting to the point where I'm not sure if I want to pay it anymore. Is being paranoid about my flight boarding pass being cancelled over my damn email address worth the privacy? Is being paranoid over whether an important email I've sent has actually reached someone and not hit a provider-level filter worth the privacy? I'm not sure anymore.
If an airline cancels my boarding pass because they don't like my email address (?), too bad for them, they just lost a sale.
If someone keeps missing important emails because their provider's spam checker isn't very good, that's not my problem.
Although I have to say that I don't run into these situations very frequently, and I use a basic postfix/dovecot setup on a VPS for my mail.
Sure but now you can't get home. I travel a ton, and this would be a major issue for me. You can't always just get on a different plane. Lucky you i guess, but airlines are one of those things that most people can't mess with.
Trust me, they don't care, I say this from experience. They don't seem to even have insight into these bans or the volume they're happening in. I had to spam Amazon support on and off for two years to get my account unlocked. And we all know how much Amazon cares about the customer... pah.
Standing your ground as a customer doesn't do anything but make life a misery.
I think it's delusional to think they care any more than you do.
If you were talking about the security theater around travel, as well as garbage like secret no-fly lists, I'd agree with you.
But requiring a boarding pass to get on a plane is no more ridiculous to a near-total majority of humans than requiring a ticket to watch a movie at a theater.
But sure, I guess I'll say "no, he doesn't". Now what?
ONE student forgot the next day (who was a "bad" kid but not actually a bad guy) and was allowed to apologize to the school for his forgetfulness over the PA to make amends. (I shared a class with him when he got called to the office, so I know he was embarrassed to have forgotten. It was bad for his carefully cultivated "bad boy" reputation to get caught out doing something this trivial.)
The difference between then and now is that since people were always interacting in person there was less tendency for people to become psychopath basement trolls who would willfully bully someone to the breaking point and beyond.
One, where the FAA investigators have a list of people's names and what seats they were assigned, the seats have numbers engraved on them, and if lap belts were in effect generally still contain at least a torso. Meaning getting everyone's various bits and pieces back to their loved ones is a gruesome jigsaw puzzle, but a solvable one.
The other possibility is that the FAA investigators get a list of names of people who were /probably/ on the plane, a large field strewn with "loose meat and offal", and absolutely no good starting point. Also, a gigantic lawsuit and a moon-sized chunk of bad press as loved ones get the wrong body parts, or too many body parts, or too few body parts.
(BTW, never explain this to anyone who is currently on a plane.)
If its my car, and i'm missing. Its my body. If its my car, and i'm at home, its my partner driving my car, or i knew who borrowed it.
Cars are tagged with a plate, and VIN and other details that make it easy to identify. Less people means easier to find wallets/phones/identifiers in a clean up action.
Remember that before 9/11 a flight ticket was just a physical ticket like any other. You'd buy it and could sell it forward or give it away to whoever and they could use it by just showing it. Nobody cared who it was, just that everyone boarding had a ticket.
No ID is checked at airport security. On airlines that aren't trying to use name change fees as a revenue stream, there's no ID check at the boarding gate either.