Originally Posted by wahooflyer
I.... However, this same friend flew US Airways out of LGA just a few weeks before and had no troubles. This may be what happened to you; it sounds like CO may have updated its lists recently.
I am pretty darn sure it's a list from the Feds, and if anyone,
they updated the list. Airlines don't have the resources to maintain and update these lists, hence the feds keep it for all the airlines.
And sometimes it takes them a while to actually single someone out. A good example was Yosuf Islam, better known to the work as Cat Stevens, who was not allowed into the US, in fact his plane landed in Canada on his way to (believe) NYC. After he deplaned, the rest of the pax continued on.
Oh, and sorry about your friend being put on the list. Believe it was Mass. Senator Ted Kennedy who somehow ended up on the list, and even for him it wasn't exactly automatic to get removed from it.
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