<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dw:
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.
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As I said, the worst that will happen is that you will receive the harassment at the gate instead of at the checkpoint.
Now, to avoid getting harassed on a reroute, book your own flight on the phone with the carrier to which you are going to be bumped. Get your FF # into the reservation
before it is ticketed. Tell the reservation agent you will get it ticketed at the airport. Then, have UA (or whoever is bumping you) print the ticket and endorse it, but tell them that you already have a reservation. Take the endorsed ticket to AA (or whomever you're bumped to), give them your record locator for the new reservation, hand them your endorsed ticket, and watch your new BP appear, SSSS-free.
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