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> The IG found that the search was based on a tip by an airline employee who passed on the names of passengers who had purchased flights 48 hours before departu
by AyyEye 2y ago
> The IG found that the search was based on a tip by an airline employee who passed on the names of passengers who had purchased flights 48 hours before departure.
I have bought last-minute airline tickets three times in my life -- all to buy a car that was a good deal. All three times I had cash to buy said car. Glad I never got snared.
- baxtr 2y ago48 hours is not uncommon for business trips.
- pas 2y agothis was simply a targeted operation at people who use cash instead of credit cards, right? (I mean business trips, corporate people usually use credit cards.)
- Scoundreller 2y agoA lotta corporate people are forced into using some (annoying and often useless) corporate travel agent. I’d guess messing with those bookings would… quickly fix the problem.
- chatmasta 2y agoI purchase most of my tickets last minute simply because I tend to procrastinate. And they’re usually one way tickets because I procrastinate deciding my return date, too. I’ve never been flagged for SSS though. Maybe that’s because the behavior isn’t anomalous for me.
- Suppafly 2y agoI never flew before 9/11, the few times I've flown, I've always been "randomly selected".
- bdangubic 2y agomake sure you are shaved (unless of course you have religious or other reasons not to be) - without fail I always get rando select when I am not shaved and literally never when I am shaved. travel on average 7x per year
- SapporoChris 2y agoI'm not certain on this, however it has been implied to me by custom officials that declaring excess funds (typically over 10k USD) when traveling internationally can protect against seizure.
- FireBeyond 2y agoThat doesn't seem right. I suspect they mean that it is protection against it "going missing", as in there's a record of the money being brought in. I don't think it protects against anything just to declare to customs.