Originally Posted by RichMSN
Doesn't sound like a direct security risk to me.
But this will just increase the volume for idiotic SSSScreenings on one-way tickets. Today I'm flying from PDX and my first leg is on Horizon. Guess what? The predictable, idiotic SSSS. When I shook my head at the counter, the agent picked up on it and cheerfully explained WHY I got the SSSSpecial treatment.
I must be a bank robber.
I posted this on the NW forum and I wanted it to be read here since many screener types probably don't read that forum. I believe in praise when it is warranted:
"Most professional secondary I've ever had. Female screener helping wanted to run my shoes or swab them and the male screener said "they don't meet the profile and the machine didn't beep."
I don't understand the "Elite" security line, though. I'm GOLD on NW, which means I can get in the NW side of the terminal quicker. But since I'm flying on a Horizon flight (bought through NW with a NW codeshare) and have to go to terminal A/B/C I CAN'T use the elite security line. The line was only 5-7 minutes long, but I was told that it was up to 32 minutes at some point today. It's spring break, and I have no idea if that number was actually true."
TSA doesn't control the elite line, so I don't have much to say there.