TSA tells Americans they can not use their Costco membership card as an ID

The Transportation Security Administration clarified this week that a Costco membership card is not sufficient to present at airport security.

“We love hotdogs & rotisserie chickens as much as the next person but please stop telling people their Costco card counts as a REAL ID because it absolutely does not,” the TSA wrote on Facebook Wednesday.

The reminder comes less than a month after the US began requiring a REAL ID driver’s license when flying domestically May 7.

Aside from REAL IDs, which have enhanced federal standards, domestic flyers can also use their passports or another federally-approved form of identification like Defense Department-issued IDs (but not a Costco card).

“Department of Defense IDs for active and retired military continue to be an acceptable form of ID at TS