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-   -   The 4 SSSS ? (https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/practical-travel-safety-security-issues/772913-4-ssss.html)

PatrickHenry1775 Dec 29, 2007 11:59 pm
Originally Posted by Andy1369 (Post 8973064)
Strange. When my parents bought my flights using their credit card, I never got SSSSed.

You have the same last name as your parents, right? I was not a name partner at the law firm, and OP stated his wife uses a government credit card.

b1513 Dec 30, 2007 9:40 am
Originally Posted by flualot (Post 8970116)
Greetings,
on our last flight from OIA to Amsterdam TIA
Where is OIA? Couldn't find it in airport look-up.

flualot Dec 30, 2007 10:02 am
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ewick12 Dec 30, 2007 11:25 am
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SirFlysALot Dec 30, 2007 11:48 am
Originally Posted by flualot (Post 8974214)

OIA = Orlando International Airport, sorry I just did a search and found out its listed as MCO.
MCO stands for Mouse Country! ;)

Anyway I have had corporate travel agents put my tickets on a corporate credit card. Never an SSSS.

Ari Dec 30, 2007 6:40 pm
I have only gotten SSSS once; it was on UA. I have no idea what triggered it and they refused to de-select me. I promptly refunded the ticket (telling them why) and bought a new ticket on AA. No SSSS on that ticket and off to the gate I was.

colpuck Dec 31, 2007 12:14 am
Originally Posted by Ari (Post 8976118)
I have only gotten SSSS once; it was on UA. I have no idea what triggered it and they refused to de-select me. I promptly refunded the ticket (telling them why) and bought a new ticket on AA. No SSSS on that ticket and off to the gate I was.
security money well spent.:td::td::td:

nacirema Dec 31, 2007 12:32 am
I have paid cash at the airport for a US-BKK ticket. I have bought one way tickets. A friend paid for couple of my tickets with her CC. Never SSSS.

The only time I did get SSSS was at the begining of a simple domestic R/T at my homeport. I used my CC to purchase the ticket. The TA knows me so she offered to take the SSSS out but I was running late so I declined. No biggie.

catocony Dec 31, 2007 9:37 am
Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775 (Post 8973038)
OP's wife makes the mistake of using a credit card in someone else's name to buy the tickets for her flights. One of the criteria for assigning SSSS is purchasing ticket with a credit card with a different name than the passenger. When I started traveling extensively in October 2002, I was instructed to use the law firm credit card to book flights through a travel agency. Wonderful airlines assigned SSSS on virtually every flight. A$$ clowns:mad:
Nope, if that was the case then just about everyone would be secondaried, since most business travelers have corporate accounts that book/bill tickets and I doubt that couples and families traveling put each ticket on seperate PNRs under each person's credit card. Plus, I've booked plenty of travel for the fiance for her to fly solo to come visit (international travel) and never had a problem.

DevilDog438 Dec 31, 2007 9:51 am
Originally Posted by flualot (Post 8971883)
Sorry it was a sticker on the passports and handwritten in BIG RED on the BP's.
If this sticker was placed on a USA passport by anyone other than a member of the State Department's passport division, it is a violation of 18 USC 1543 as an invalid alteration/mutilation of a USA passport.

Ari Dec 31, 2007 12:13 pm
Originally Posted by colpuck (Post 8977179)
security money well spent.:td::td::td:
Agreed-- it is just more evidence of what a farce SSSS really is. Of course, we already knew that anyway . . .

Ari Dec 31, 2007 3:13 pm
Originally Posted by DevilDog438 (Post 8978644)
If this sticker was placed on a USA passport by anyone other than a member of the State Department's passport division, it is a violation of 18 USC 1543 as an invalid alteration/mutilation of a USA passport.
Stickers go on the outside of passports all the time.

If you don't like what the sticker says, remove it. @:-)

Goldlust Jan 1, 2008 10:18 am
Question at law
 
Originally Posted by DevilDog438 (Post 8978644)
If this sticker was placed on a USA passport by anyone other than a member of the State Department's passport division, it is a violation of 18 USC 1543 as an invalid alteration/mutilation of a USA passport.
Originally Posted by Ari (Post 8980437)
Stickers go on the outside of passports all the time.

If you don't like what the sticker says, remove it. @:-)
Who of you are right?

gfunkdave Jan 1, 2008 12:15 pm
Originally Posted by Goldlust (Post 8983947)
Who of you are right?
I've gotten stickers put on the outside of my passport many times - by immigration officers, airline employees, and others. But the only people who do anything INSIDE my passport are customs/immigration types.

nacirema Jan 1, 2008 8:09 pm
Originally Posted by DevilDog438 (Post 8978644)
If this sticker was placed on a USA passport by anyone other than a member of the State Department's passport division, it is a violation of 18 USC 1543 as an invalid alteration/mutilation of a USA passport.
what about visa stickers placed by foreign immigration services?


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