There are many acceptable substitutes for a Real ID at the airport — a passport, permanent resident card, enhanced driver's license, etc.

A Costco card is not one of them.

Last week, the Transportation Security Administration debunked a rumor that claimed airport security agents would accept the grocery store membership card in place of a Real ID.

"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 agency said in a post on X.

However, fliers are more than welcome to use their cards before heading to the airport to buy a light travel snack — or a whole rotisserie chicken — TSA said in another post June 2.

"Can you bring a rotisserie chicken on the plane? You bet y

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