Refusing "Say Your Name" and new SPOT Questions: Opt-Out Experiences
Aug 2, 2011, 2:02 pm
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Refusing "Say Your Name" and new SPOT Questions: Opt-Out Experiences
Since the 'say your name' stupidity along with new SPOT procedures are upon us, I thought we should have a new thread to list our opt-out experiences and provide guidance to fellow FTers on how to avoid this nonsense without getting arrested or missing flights.
I am not flying until Aug16, but I am interested in how others have been dealing with the 'say your name' crap.
I am not flying until Aug16, but I am interested in how others have been dealing with the 'say your name' crap.
Aug 2, 2011, 2:31 pm
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Geez - It's hard to keep up with all this nonsense! Actually, I started a "say your name" thread a while back. It's become quite populated.
Geez - It's hard to keep up with all this nonsense! Actually, I started a "say your name" thread a while back. It's become quite populated.
Aug 2, 2011, 2:33 pm
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Geez - It's hard to keep up with all this nonsense! Actually, I started a "say your name" thread a while back. It's become quite populated.
Geez - It's hard to keep up with all this nonsense! Actually, I started a "say your name" thread a while back. It's become quite populated.
Aug 2, 2011, 2:58 pm
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consider that a refusal to submit to the screening process).
I've just about decided to let them know that out of an abundance
of caution and to protect my privacy in places where thieves frequent
that I don't say my name out loud but I would be happy to write down
the phonetic version for them since I do expect they know how to read
(I'd also have to work in a less friendly version using the international
phonetic alphabet, just reading those things in dictionaries makes
me stumble, I just can't wrap my head around all those diacritics
and where one needs to use the proper notation and so forth).
