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Old Sep 8, 2015 | 4:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Randyk47
I would think a single screener could not summarily get a passenger booted out of a program, I doubt they have that authority. They could file a report of some sort that, depending on the nature of the real or perceived passenger behavior or offense, could upon review by a proper authority result in loss of the Trusted Traveler status. I too wonder at what would even closely approach a significant enough event, or apparently maybe two separate events, that could provoke the described reaction. Generally I don't exchange much more than casual pleasantries, and sometimes not even that, with most screeners. DFW is a big operation with literally thousands going through security during a typical shift. Over a week or more that number would approach astronomical so to get noticed and remembered would be no small feat.
You never know.

A screener at PHX monitoring the xray belt exit swore up and down she knew me and saw me there all the time. She was wrong. I do fly PHX, but that was the only time I'd flown in/out of T4. I asked if she worked the other terminals and she insisted she didn't and she had seen me at her station in T2 many times before. She started getting a bit warm about it, and frankly, it made me uncomfortable. I couldn't wait to get away from her. She all but said I was lying.

What can I say? She was wrong.
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