Originally Posted by
pc95
Note that flagging is done by SW, not the TSA. There was little casual about my initial input. TSA has little to do with Southwest's reservation system besides giving guidelines.
This is no longer true thanks to Secure Flight.
http://www.southwest.com/html/genera...light_faq.html
Secure Flight conducts uniform prescreening of passenger information against federal government watch lists for domestic and international flights. The TSA is taking over this responsibility from aircraft operators who, up until now, have been responsible for checking the passengers against government watch lists.