No Flying for YOU!

I had an early flight home from Orlando this morning. When I got to the Southwest counter, there was no line which was a cool thing. I stepped up to a kiosk, and a guy about my age and with no baggage stepped up to the one next to me. I checked in and was handing my bags over when I heard the guy explaining that his flight doesn’t leave until tomorrow morning but he was checking in early so that he could get an “A” boarding pass. (If you’ve never flown Southwest, then you wouldn’t know why that’s important. But I digress….)

The Southwest employee told the guy that he can check in online. And that’s when he explained that he can’t because he’s on the TSA “No Fly” list. I mentioned that their website has some process you can go through to get off of the list. And that’s when the dropped the bomb — this poor guy has gone through that process dozens of times, but always ends up back on the list two months later. Not helpful when you’ve got meetings in Orlando every other week. So he’s given up on the process and just drives by the airport 24 hours before every flight to check in at the counter. About the only thing I could find to say was “Well, I guess that what happens in Vegas doesn’t really stay in Vegas.” He laughed.

And so his painful odyssey through the transportation system continues…

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“Papers please?”

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