<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spiff:
And now, here's how to avoid getting harassed at the checkpoint. If you cannot check in online, as is the case in this scenario, buy a fully-refundable ticket on another carrier that shares the same concourse. (at DEN, all the concourses are connected, so no matter) Preferrably, buy this ticket on a carrier with whom you have status and make sure it's round trip and not one way, as all terrorists are too stupid to realize that one way ticketing is often more expensive than round trip. Check in, use your new BP at checkpoint security, refund the ticket over the phone. Present your original SSSS harassment ticket at your original flight's gate. At worst, you'll get the harassment you would have received at the checkpoint. More likely, you'll just get boarded.
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Not sure if this will work. I was selected for SSSS when I accepted a VDB on UA and they endorsed me over to AA. After I was security checked, the TSA agent hole-punched the SSSS part of my boarding card. When I boarded the AA flight, the gate agent did check to see if that punch was there.
[This message has been edited by dw (edited Feb 06, 2004).]