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Old Jul 28, 2006 | 6:40 am
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Bernoulli 777
 
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Originally Posted by Facevalue
Same thing happened to me last Thursday ... the agent read a new memo to me stating that a large number of Elite's were S'ed due to a computer glitch, and they were working on fixing the problem.

It sounds like either a genuine computer glitch or an excuse for a dragnet by the TSA. ^
You bring up a good question..what is the computer interface between TSA and CO ? Does CO make the decision about SSSS thresholds, or just implement a TSA directive - such as "hassle all tickets purchased or modified within 48 hours of flight time" ?


Originally Posted by Facevalue
I was waiting for this thread to be created. ^
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