Originally Posted by
chollie
It's summertime, lots of people are on vacation, so presumably they didn't get the word. FSDs come back and have to deal with a backlog before they can pass the word on to their staff (assuming they agree to implement the change at their airport). TSOs come back to work and have no way of knowing that things changed while they were gone.
Sorry, that excuse just doesn't fly.
Do you think that the same would work in reverse, i.e., a new procedure is instituted but it's put on hold until the FSD comes back from vacation? Every FSD has an assistant FSD to implement new procedures in the absence of the FSD or in this case to tell screeners to stop demanding passengers speak their name.