Remember there is a way with UA anyway to get around this if you object to being searched and hassled for anything up to a few minutes.

Ask for another seat assignment.

The "SSSS" goes away more often than not. (It is random.)

And then you can change your mind and ask UA for same seat back as you have before you changed your mind. Before you move from the podium. Same deal usually. No "SSSS"

It is an absurd and obvious tagging, and if the TSA thinks for one second that 90% of folks on a BB know it means they are ear-marked for extra searching, one might imagine after a couple of years that all potential terrorists might know about it too.

The other thing, with UA at least, is that the "SSSS" comes out real large on original BP. Like half inch high type size.

Last month I had seats I did not care to lose, even for an instant, so did not want to try cancelling the seat deal. So I asked RCC for another BP as mine had accidentally got mangled in my briefcase lock. Very mangled as she could see. Tragic. So the new BP from RCC came out with "SSSS" in a font the size of this BB.

I was not secondarily searched.

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~ Glen ~ sipping bubbly from a UA 747-400 exit row 15 near you SOON!

[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited Feb 08, 2004).]