Originally Posted by
SeeBuyFly
Had a somewhat unusual experience with SSSS before boarding QR to the US at DOH. Never pulled out of the line; carryon was swabbed and I received a half-hearted patdown, but I always moved along with everyone else. No questioning.
That’s in the range of normal when flying QR’s DOH-US flights.
About cursory pat downs as part of being a SSSS target, except in Mexico, my SSSS screenings’ pat-downs at the gates in Latin American airports have been very cursory too and given the impression of being as you characterized them.