Originally Posted by
sadiqhassan
I'm not really sure what this spot checking thing is - but regardless - he was so nice that I didn't even care.
This is what happened - there was SSSS on my bp. He looked at it quite thoroughly and presumably saw the SSSS (or so I thought) and gave the BP back. The g/a saw that it wasn't marked and marched me right back.
Cheers,
The gate agent made you return to security?
What would this same gate agent do if you were issued an SSSS BP in the sterile area? It happens -- sometimes it is being re-scheduled on another carrier, a couple of times I've have a separate one-way ticket for the last leg of a journey (better flight time, fare .. typically a good reason). I fly airline A and arrive into the secure area of a hub on one ticket, I check-in with airline B inside the secure area because they have the best schedule to my destination, ticket is one-way because I'm doing the reverse on another carrier, and I'm suddenly an SSSS.
Take ORD as an example. I often switch between UA and AA at ORD depending on who has the best schedule. Sometimes it's AA to ORD, UA out of ORD and return is all on AA. Other times it can be the reverse.