Nah, it's cool.

Because of my scheduling woes (I'm trying to make a wedding in downtown Chicago at 1 p.m. on Saturday), I have to have a direct flight on the return, so there's not a whole lot of options. Two airlines have direct flights that get in early enough for me, so it'll be one of those two, it's just a matter of finding the best way to buy the ticket.

Y'know what's weird? My flight to NO for the F2F. Travelocity offered me a non-stop via American on the way down, but a one-stop flight on the way back via Delta. I took it because the times were good and it was only a little more expensive than taking non-non-stop flights both ways.

But what's up with giving me different airlines each way at cheap prices? I don't think it's one of those dealies where it's an American flight piggybacking on a Delta airplane either.

Maybe they misread the word "thereminist" in your FBI passenger profile data, and just booked you on whatever flights made it easiest to arrest you.

My flight to NO for the F2F. Travelocity offered me a non-stop via American on the way down, but a one-stop flight on the way back via Delta.

I've booked that through Travelocity before. Prepare to be flagged for additional security check EVERY SINGLE LEG. You see, as far as the airlines know, you've booked a one-way. Even the security guards were griping about having to frisk my 8-year-old.

Amazingly when I went back east in December I was flying on all one way tickets and I didn't get any extra attention going through security. I was expecting it, and then it didn't happen.

If they've wised up, that would be great. (Surely by now the terrorists have the brains to book round-trips?)

I got flagged going one-way in December.

I've booked that through Travelocity before. Prepare to be flagged for additional security check EVERY SINGLE LEG.

That just happened to my mother, my nephew, and me when we went to Florida recently. Well, so there were only two legs, but, yeah, we got flagged both times. I mean, whatever, it was fine, but just... both ways. Ugh. And my mother is a nervous flyer anyway (yay for Xanax!), so... not fun.

And we booked through Travelocity, too. Is my point.

If you have a frequent flyer card on the airline and booked more than a month out, it has a huge impact. In fact, the new security system that TSA was talking about implementing a few months ago (I don't know if it has happened or not) included a proviso that people with a frequent flyer card were automatically less scrutinized. Even if I never plan to fly an airline again, I always register for a frequent flyer number with them for this reason. Dave flies one way twice a week and almost never has a problem -- I'm guessing for the same reason. Anyway. Rambling now.

Amazingly I didn't even have FF memership on the airlines I was taking. I normally fly American, but I didn't on that trip. I did book more than a month out.

My experience has been that if I get searched on one leg of a trip I'll get searched on every leg. The ticket gets flagged for the entire journey. I do not understand the logic of this. It would seem to make more sense to do the extra security check on me on one leg, and then move on and search someone new on the next.

I wonder how many people really make the decision to turn to a life of crime while waiting for their connecting flight.