Originally Posted by
SDF_Traveler
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.
The gate agent could have called TSA to come to the gate to do the screening there or send the passenger back to the check point to get the cleared stamp on the boarding pass with the extra screening. What did the gate agent do with you when you suddenly became an SSSS when you switched flights? I hope that the airline deselected you as they saw that you were not SSSS on your original flight.
Originally Posted by
oneofthosepeopleyouloveto hate
That's interesting, Cee, because at my airport, when the BDOs have a person of interest, they carry out their additional screening themselves!
How's that for some consistent inconsistency? LOL
The way Cee explained it is the same way that BDO's do it at MSP.
