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Do you always use a passport: domestic flights?


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I don't drive so passport is key for me.  But so interesting that so many Canadians lining up for every single flight I've boarded over the past decade, 98% have a passport to show for a domestic flight.  And probably many are drivers.

I fly within Canada about 6-8 trips annually minimum.  Each trip is @minimum 1,000 km. in 1 direction/trip between 2 of Canada's biggest cities.  Plane is usually 80-100% full.

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I used the passport until a couple of years ago.  Now I have the "super duper" license.  Sure enough now that I have it I've stopped travelling outside of the country.  It's not like the old days though.  There's nothing like getting off a plane and having someone waiting to escort you around the immigration area without stopping.  

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1 hour ago, Old#7 said:

My passport expired years ago. I need to renew that and my wife needs to get one as well if we're going to travel more. 

This, although my SO has one. I haven't flown since 2002, and we drive if we go somewhere. I'm not taking my shoes off because of something that happened years ago. 

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I just got my first-ever passport for the Alaska trip in July.  Previous to that I hadn't flown anywhere since 2002 and there was no issue with a driver's license then.  And there was no issue crossing the Canadian border without one, even on a drunken road trip to Montreal in 1991.

Regardless of where I was flying, if I had a passport, I don't know why I wouldn't use it.

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1 hour ago, TrentonMakes said:

I just got my first-ever passport for the Alaska trip in July.  Previous to that I hadn't flown anywhere since 2002 and there was no issue with a driver's license then.  And there was no issue crossing the Canadian border without one, even on a drunken road trip to Montreal in 1991.

Regardless of where I was flying, if I had a passport, I don't know why I wouldn't use it.

1) it is larger than a drivers license. 2) you already carry your drivers license. 3) it is a more expensive and more time consuming to replace. 4) it is much more valuable in "the wrong hands" than a DL. Probably a few others I missed. Upside of a passport - no weight nonsense, so the folks who yo-yo a lot are made to feel bad if that potentially 9yr old document is way off in a bad sense.

Tom

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14 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

1) it is larger than a drivers license. 2) you already carry your drivers license. 3) it is a more expensive and more time consuming to replace. 4) it is much more valuable in "the wrong hands" than a DL. Probably a few others I missed. Upside of a passport - no weight nonsense, so the folks who yo-yo a lot are made to feel bad if that potentially 9yr old document is way off in a bad sense.

Tom

Well, if you're going to bring logic into it then fine.  As I said, I'm new to the whole passport thing.

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I value my passport.  I didn't realize how important diplomatic, formal signed relationships were between countries....until I worked with expat. employees from other countries who wanted to go into U.S. from Canada just for a few days.  A Filipino from Philippines working in Canada on a temporary worker visa (issued by the Canadian govn't) still had to apply for visitor's visA to even travel into the U.S. for 1-2 days.  Vancouver is only 40 km. from the international border.  As you can appreciate, the Canadian passport office in Vancouver has enough applications for passports, lineups of people.

It is a very serious matter to have  your passport missing...  

Yes, I am proud/feel lucky to hold a Canadian passport (and citizenship).  I don't take for granted my citizenship rights  -at all. I don't know  the extra hoops the Canadian federal govn't requires, if a person who does not yet have Canadian citizenship but is a permanent resident in Canada (after they received official approval to immigrate legally into Canada) and needs passport/similar authorization/ID to travel overseas.  

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