Comments on: SSSS Equals No SXSW

By: Groo

Groo — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:09:04 +0000

Oh yeah and they should put those bomb container things in the luggage bay. I don’t know the name offhand but have seen these on the news and they will contain an explosion. After all that the only easy way to take a plane down is missiles and I just read commercial airlines are testing anti-missile systems. There are plenty of obvious ways to disrupt aircraft and kill passengers but I think those cover the easiest ways and I’m not going into further detail of what ideas I know might work :D .

By: Groo

Groo — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:59:54 +0000

To Ala:

Anytime you purchase a ticket for one way flight, you have to go through additional security. One way flight red flags you as a potential terrorist. There are cards out there you can get that show you’ve had a background check and allow TSA to expedite you without all the security fuss, but I think the whole idea is stupid because any of the 9/11 attackers could probably have passed the checks or bought round trip tickets. Seriously if you just want to jack a plane the extra money isn’t going to be an issue as your going to die anyways so not like you’re going to miss your house payment, lol. The best way to keep planes secure, IMO, is just make sure an air marshal is on board with a gun, raise ticket prices a bit to pay her/him, and if anybody charges the cockpit they get their ass blown off. Let pilots have guns, and make that cockpit door as secure as possible, it’ll pay for itself in the long run.

By: ala

ala — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:07:36 +0000

I had no idea what SSSS code meant till I got to this website. I thought that it had to do something with immigration. I flu from EWR(Newark airport) to Toronto this year and I purchased one way ticket because I went home so why would I purchase two way ticket……….when I was entering usa earlier immigration officer was tough looking so I thought all that time he had something to do with it…………….
I flu by Air Canada to YYZ Toronto…when I chcecked my laguage i had more weight in one suitcase than in another so agent let me move stuff to another……….???…….than surprise came at the TSA….they put on side and briefly checked.The guy was ok but didn’t answer why?……………Will I always be chcecked like SSSS or next flight will that stop?……………I love USA very much, and people too but crossing borders to usa and airports are very stressful ……lost interest to ever go back……………..

By: oyun

oyun — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:25:53 +0000

Similar incident here, but had to make the hike back through security check with wife and small child. They actually wanded my son with metal detector: He was a little over a year old. Then got stuck waiting for a later flight.

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Two Interviews in One Week at The Adventures of Jessica Sideways — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:56:42 +0000

[…] counter so they could give me a pass to get to the gate, they wrote “SSSS” and for anyone who knows what that means, that means I did not have much fun going through security. I got the full security scan, the air […]

By: Colm

Colm — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:40:37 +0000

Years ago, my brother got checked when boarding the Holyhead car ferry from the UK to Ireland. At the time he was a long haired theoretical physics student with an interest in philosophy. In his bag he had 1) a chemistry book 2) a philosophy book.

This combination landed him in serious trouble with the security team who were convinced that they had captured a major IRA terrorist. They just could not get their heads around why a physics student would need a chemistry book (bombs!) and a philosophy book.

By: Matt Robin

Matt Robin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:58:04 +0000

That’s nuts! Those crazy Airport Staff!! Sorry to hear about this.

By: Mike Stickel

Mike Stickel — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:34:23 +0000

Boooo! I didn’t have any troubles with my flights but I was looking forward to finally meeting you in person. Damn SEA-TAC! Oh well, guess I’ll just have to wait until I’m back in Seattle in April.

By: julie

julie — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:58:09 +0000

Leave a complaint at TSAcomplaints.com

By: Virginia Murdoch

Virginia Murdoch — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:26:35 +0000

Well Mike, here’s a positive outcome for you: my business partner and I had flown all the way from Australia for SXSW, only for our Qantas flight to get stuck on the tarmac at LAX for an hour, thus causing us to miss our Austin flight. We got jammed on a flight to Dallas, and ended up catch what I imagine was your flight from Dallas to Austin, delayed as it had been by several hours. If you’d got through, then there wouldn’t have been a seat for one of us (the plane was crammed). So, thank you!

Also, we got SSSS’ed on our way out of Austin to JFK, probably to make up for the fact that we didn’t get SSSS’ed for either the LA-Dallas or Dallas-Austin flights. Boo ssssssss is what I say.

By: Paul Annett

Paul Annett — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:41:55 +0000

Shame you didn’t make it, Mike.

They’d overbooked our connecting BA flight and gave us some rubbish about our bags not making it between airplanes in time for our connection so they’d have to re-book us on a later American flight. By way of an apology, this resulted in an SSSS code, and an inferior airline with no upgrade. As it turned out, our bags did get across to the earlier BA flight in time after all, exposing their big lie.

Nothing as bad as your experience, but an inconvenience nonetheless.

By: Jason Beaird

Jason Beaird — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:40:05 +0000

So that's why I got the "full-treatment"... My inbound flight was supposed to go through Dallas early Friday morning and was canceled as well. The best American said they could do would have gotten me there at 10:30pm but I met a stranger who was also trying to get to Austin and so we switched our flight to Houston and split a rental car to Austin. We too almost missed our flight though because they had to wand us, pat us down down and "swab" everything we owned. They even swabbed all around my cast just in case I'd stuffed some cocaine or plastic explosives in there.

By: Andy Bailey

Andy Bailey — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:52:21 +0000

what a nightmare! maybe ssss means “Super Secret SS agent” lol

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:44:55 +0000

As if by magic…

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004273099_webtsablog10.html

Mad at the TSA? Post your gripes about air travel on its new blog
(AP)

It’s not often that the federal government invites people to air their grievances. But the Transportation Security Administration is welcoming people to complain, criticize and question TSA operations on its “Evolution of Security” blog — http://www.tsa.gov/blog — which went live Jan. 30. A TSA blogger team reads all of the comments and posts almost all of them, no matter how harsh or how cranky the poster.

(major snip)

By: Pallian

Pallian — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:46:20 +0000

I got that SSSS treatment on my way back from Sundance – and I thought they were just racial profiling me. Good to know anyone can get SSSS’d!