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.

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

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Bonus points if in the Chicago airport. Nothing against Chicago, it's just the number of times I've been stranded there. The last time I was coming back from the left coast (which was in August, mind you), I will delayed due to "weather" (which, as far as I could see, consisted of a lot of rain) for five hours.

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

If they hadn't taken my pocketknife away on the first leg, I surely would have run amok in O'Hare.

Chicago airport crime x-post!

Hence the reason I'm so anal about taking direct flights.

I'm sensing a pattern, as it was O'Hare that stranded me on my flight back from NillyFest and sent me bouncing from one mistakenly identified desk (complete with clueless employees whose mantra was "who told you that?") to the next in search of flight confirmations and hotel vouchers.

O'Hare is the Sixth Circle of Hell.

The Seventh is the commuter section of Cincinnati's airport.