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Jun 5, 2007 | 10:17 am

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Originally Posted by VC10 Boy

Try entering a Scandinavian character in the booking field for name. It's rejected, but in your passport there is an ß. So TSA think you're a terrorist and you are refused permission to fly. And all because Silverjet can't get a decent booking engine.

Interesting -- not surprising -- that the DHS/TSA thinks a "ss" or other variations for ß on a ticket/boarding pass is a ticket/boarding pass-ID mismatch, thus requiring SSSS treatment even while much of the rest of the DHS bigger buck employees and biggest buck contractors were told to specifically consider such characters.

What would happen if you used "B" instead of "ss" or something else less obvious to people not familiar with the use of ß?

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