Originally Posted by mjcoffey

My wife and I are both NW SE and we just got back from a trip to Maui. We were flying from OGG to LAX on seperate Continental tickets and the OGG to HNL leg was on Hawaiian. When we were checking in at OGG we were apparently flagged and SSSS was put on our boarding passes. When we got to security we were told we would be subject to further security review, i.e. wand and pat downs as well as having all of our carry on bags inspected by TSA. I asked the TSA guy before the metal detector why where flagged and he said the airline flagged us. He said he wasn't sure why, but it could have been any number of reasons, including, as he put it, "because they thought you looked funny."

While we were waiting for our carry ons to be inspected I told my wife what the guy had said, that it might not be a random thing. Another TSA screener overheard me and said that of course it was random. When I told him what the first TSA guy had said, he didn't really have a response. Additionally, I pointed out that we were flying on seperate reservations, so the odds of both of us getting flagged randomly were pretty slim. He just repeated that it was random.

While it wasn't a huge inconvenience, I am still curious why we were flagged, especially because we got conflicting info from the TSA people. We fly a lot and this has never happended to us before. If I want to contact the airline, should I talk to Hawaiian or CO? Or should I just let sleeping dogs lie?

Anyone else have a similar experience?