The Dreaded SSSS

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This week was a bit of an adventure coming back from AMS. Loads were pretty bad after the remnants of the Air France strike as AF had sent everyone through AMS on KLM/Delta to rebook. We didn't get out Sunday (tried 3 times to MSP) so we stayed until Tuesday morning and got home via DTW in business...yay!

However, all four of my boarding passes had the dreaded SSSS attached. Not so random after all heh? So as a pilot for a 121 carrier with Global Entry status I'm scratching my head with this one.

A fluke or worth writing the TSA for a redress number? Doesn't happen often to me but found it strange to get it each time I tried to get a boarding pass. My wife didn't once. Problem is they apparently don't give reasons for the redress so you'll never know if someone with a similar name or what caused it.
 
ppragman said:
You probably talked about your secret plan too loudly around your iPhone - come this way citizen.
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If you're Global Entry, wasn't there a place to enter your known traveler #?
 
Polar742 said:
If you're Global Entry, wasn't there a place to enter your known traveler #?
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Good question....I know on ID90 I can't seem to find a place to put mine (or my wife's) GE number, if someone knows of a place to plug it in that would be great, not so much for me but when the wife nonrevs it never comes up on her boarding pass.
 
I globally entered my way into DTW the day before you, but from FRA. It was wide open but did also go out with 38 non-revs, probably from the strike aftermath as well as it being the only empty looking flight I saw in about a four day block of days out of any of the big European cities. Anyway, never had SSSS with it yet myself, although 99% of the time I use it I am working.
 
bike21 said:
We're both Global Entry and yes I did enter it on the listing. Weird heh?
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Probably thought you were bring some Kashmir Kush back to CO.

Luckily, I tend not to be non-revving any more so this is all new to me.

However, until I got Known Traveler, they would buy last minute one-way tickets. So I always got "randomly selected". A they were giving me the complimentary radiation therapy/prostate exams, they'd stumble across my badge. "What's this?"

"I'm Part 121 aircrew"

[snob face] Do you fly into here?

[troll face] "Yeah, I brought a 747 in 45 minutes ago. You can see it from the windows over there"

It was to no avail as my ability to fly a fully laden and fueled widebody over their fair city in no way qualifies me to be trusted as a passenger in a middle seat in the last row of a 737 going 3 hours north in the eyes of the tip of the spear of our national security.
 
Polar742 said:
"I'm Part 121 aircrew"

[snob face] Do you fly into here?

[troll face] "Yeah, I brought a 747 in 45 minutes ago. You can see it from the windows over there"

It was to no avail as my ability to fly a fully laden and fueled widebody over their fair city in no way qualifies me to be trusted as a passenger in a middle seat in the last row of a 737 going 3 hours north in the eyes of the tip of the spear of our national security.
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Security Theater.
 
Polar742 said:
Probably thought you were bring some Kashmir Kush back to CO.

Luckily, I tend not to be non-revving any more so this is all new to me.

However, until I got Known Traveler, they would buy last minute one-way tickets. So I always got "randomly selected". A they were giving me the complimentary radiation therapy/prostate exams, they'd stumble across my badge. "What's this?"

"I'm Part 121 aircrew"

[snob face] Do you fly into here?

[troll face] "Yeah, I brought a 747 in 45 minutes ago. You can see it from the windows over there"

It was to no avail as my ability to fly a fully laden and fueled widebody over their fair city in no way qualifies me to be trusted as a passenger in a middle seat in the last row of a 737 going 3 hours north in the eyes of the tip of the spear of our national security.
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This is the TSA dammit. Motto: "Common sense has no place here."
 
Polar742 said:
Probably thought you were bring some Kashmir Kush back to CO.

Luckily, I tend not to be non-revving any more so this is all new to me.

However, until I got Known Traveler, they would buy last minute one-way tickets. So I always got "randomly selected". A they were giving me the complimentary radiation therapy/prostate exams, they'd stumble across my badge. "What's this?"

"I'm Part 121 aircrew"

[snob face] Do you fly into here?

[troll face] "Yeah, I brought a 747 in 45 minutes ago. You can see it from the windows over there"

It was to no avail as my ability to fly a fully laden and fueled widebody over their fair city in no way qualifies me to be trusted as a passenger in a middle seat in the last row of a 737 going 3 hours north in the eyes of the tip of the spear of our national security.
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I think they probably just have a midget hipster fetish.
 
GE gets me TSA Pre on United but not on Delta as their non-rev system uses seat requests rather than (dummy) boarding passes I guess.

Last flight out I got the UK version of SSSS on the jetbridge so I guess it works both ways.
 
Polar742 said:
Probably thought you were bring some Kashmir Kush back to CO.

Luckily, I tend not to be non-revving any more so this is all new to me.

However, until I got Known Traveler, they would buy last minute one-way tickets. So I always got "randomly selected". A they were giving me the complimentary radiation therapy/prostate exams, they'd stumble across my badge. "What's this?"

"I'm Part 121 aircrew"

[snob face] Do you fly into here?

[troll face] "Yeah, I brought a 747 in 45 minutes ago. You can see it from the windows over there"

It was to no avail as my ability to fly a fully laden and fueled widebody over their fair city in no way qualifies me to be trusted as a passenger in a middle seat in the last row of a 737 going 3 hours north in the eyes of the tip of the spear of our national security.
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Sounds suspect...
 
Eagle421flyer said:
Good question....I know on ID90 I can't seem to find a place to put mine (or my wife's) GE number, if someone knows of a place to plug it in that would be great, not so much for me but when the wife nonrevs it never comes up on her boarding pass.
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In sabre the gate agent can add the redress number to the reservation after its made. Should be as simple as calling up the airline or walking up to the counter before you check in for the flight. For those with myIDTravel, you can also enter the redress number while booking the reservation but I think some people have told me it was buggy.

At PBI we had some problems before where the TSA PRE wouldn't show up on the boarding pass, I believe the solution was for an agent or manager to walk the customer over to the TSA Pre Check line (as long as they had the proper paperwork), TSA had already been informed and was used to it, but we always told the customer it was up to the TSA's discretion to allow them on the line without the vip stamp on the boarding pass.
 
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