Why do flight attendants ask to see your ID when paying by card on the airplane?

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To summarize the comments and also corroborate with my own experience: this is simply not general practice. I have paid with my card on Norwegian, Norwegian long haul, Aer Lingus, easyJet and perhaps more that I forgot without ever needing an ID. @Relaxed said the same.

@TonyK suggests all off line transactions should come with an ID check. Maybe the gateway pushes for such but as far as I am aware no such authorization type exists and some source for it would be very welcome. Also, this would suggest some responsibility lies with the flight attendants to recognize a fake ID. That's just not realistic.

I would suggest this is simply a dumb psychological trick to keep people straight.

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