Originally Posted by cpx
How did they verify that you were an actual passenger?
If you take all metal off of you and into the bag.. the extra screening should
take less than a minute... I wouldnt be too worried about
it.. but it would certainly bother me a little.
Good question about verifying I was a passenger. Come to think of it, I had nothing but my confirmation with e-ticket and record locator. Maybe they were anticipating the computers being back up? Not sure.
As for the search itself, it wasn't a problem at all. I'd just heard about it but not had it happen to me. And when the agent wrote "SSSS" on my hand-written boarding pass after telling me the computer was down, but still said the computer randomly selected me, I knew something was up.
