Do One Way Tickets Subject People to Extra Screening?
Dec 16, 2010, 11:25 am
#46
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They still do religiously at LGA -- big signs up all over the place to keep your boarding pass out. The TSO on the secure side of the WTMD looks at each boarding pass, and if you're using an electronic one, you turn in a green card stating your info checks out.
Dec 16, 2010, 12:56 pm
#47
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Dec 16, 2010, 1:43 pm
#48
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This month I purchased a refundable one-way ticket less than 12 hours before departure for a friend of mine to visit me airside while I was on a connection. No frequent flier number. And I misspelled his (very common American) first name on the ticket by accident. I did give his correct DOB to Secure Flight.
No SSSS. He was unable to check in online though.
No SSSS. He was unable to check in online though.
Dec 26, 2010, 12:24 pm
#49
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Will we recieve a SSSS?
We are a family of four (from Europe), who is going on a vacation in the Caribbean. Towards our destination, we will fly through YYZ with AC.
After our stay in the Caribbean, we have decided we want to spend a week at the parks in Orlando. I'm thinking of buying a one-way ticket with AA, which is very cheap and convenient. Transfer is in Miami.
We will get SSSS at every check point, both in the Caribbean and in Miami, as we are travelling a family of four on a one-way ticket to the US?
From Orlando, we will fly back home with AC through YYZ.
After our stay in the Caribbean, we have decided we want to spend a week at the parks in Orlando. I'm thinking of buying a one-way ticket with AA, which is very cheap and convenient. Transfer is in Miami.
We will get SSSS at every check point, both in the Caribbean and in Miami, as we are travelling a family of four on a one-way ticket to the US?
From Orlando, we will fly back home with AC through YYZ.
Dec 26, 2010, 12:29 pm
#50
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We are a family of four (from Europe), who is going on a vacation in the Caribbean. Towards our destination, we will fly through YYZ with AC.
After our stay in the Caribbean, we have decided we want to spend a week at the parks in Orlando. I'm thinking of buying a one-way ticket with AA, which is very cheap and convenient. Transfer is in Miami.
We will get SSSS at every check point, both in the Caribbean and in Miami, as we are travelling a family of four on a one-way ticket to the US?
From Orlando, we will fly back home with AC through YYZ.
After our stay in the Caribbean, we have decided we want to spend a week at the parks in Orlando. I'm thinking of buying a one-way ticket with AA, which is very cheap and convenient. Transfer is in Miami.
We will get SSSS at every check point, both in the Caribbean and in Miami, as we are travelling a family of four on a one-way ticket to the US?
From Orlando, we will fly back home with AC through YYZ.
To answer you question, best guess is maybe. Pay with cash, and almost certainly.
Dec 26, 2010, 12:36 pm
#51
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Routing is Europe-YYZ-SJU; MCO-YYZ-Europe.
We will buy a stand alone ticket with AA: SJU-MIA-MCO
Dec 26, 2010, 12:41 pm
#52
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Domestically, as a US national, I have never gotten SSSS with an open-jaw routing but I am not sure about someone doing it internationally. I don't think so, just because people tend to do this type of thing for things like carribean cruises and the florida tour thing is real common.
Dec 26, 2010, 1:03 pm
#53
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I don't thinK you will receive an SSSS. I purchase one way and other odd tickets all the time, and have never had any problems..
Dec 26, 2010, 10:06 pm
#56
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A lot of Europeans arrive into the US and fly around the US using open jaw tickets with some additional one-way tickets thrown in as well and it's not ordinary to face any more harassment from the TSA than US persons flying on simple roundtrip flights that have them going through the same checkpoints the same number of times.
Apr 6, 2011, 11:08 pm
#57
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Are One Way Tickets still getting SuperSpecialSillyService?
it's April of 2011, are one way tickets still getting singled out for the SuperStripSearchSpecial?
I haven't done the one way ticket in years but I'm considering flying out to meet some friends on a commercial then flying home with them on private plane.
(Would I still get harassed or has someone finally understood that the bad guys can easily buy roundtrip tickets?)
I haven't done the one way ticket in years but I'm considering flying out to meet some friends on a commercial then flying home with them on private plane.
(Would I still get harassed or has someone finally understood that the bad guys can easily buy roundtrip tickets?)
Apr 6, 2011, 11:30 pm
#58
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No. I booked a one-way ticket, SFO-SYD in F, on 4/1. Although I ended up canceling the ticket, I did not get SSSSd when I did OLCI.