IP: do terrorists only buy one-way airline tickets?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Lets hope it is growing pains. BTW I ended up feeling "very confident" in 
future aifrline security when Fema decided it was too dangerous to be near 
National Airport . djf


> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 20:07:53 -0800
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Tom Gable <tgable () gcs-pr com>
> Subject: do terrorists only buy one-way airline tickets?
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>         The scene: a business traveler checking in at Continental, 
> Houston, notices her name is highlighted on the passenger manifest.  Asks 
> why.  No answer.
>         The action: long wait, very slow boarding of plane, everyone 
> finally seated, then announcement made for everyone to leave the plane 
> immediately for security reasons.
>         The security reason?  The business traveler who had seen her name 
> highlighted.  She had flown to Houston on a charter so had to purchase a 
> one-way ticket to get home.  Instead of dealing with this possible 
> security threat when she checked in (very clean cut American business 
> woman, by the way), they inconvenienced everyone after the plane was 
> boarded.  And screwed up a lot of schedules.
>         Let us hope and pray this approach to one-way ticket profiling 
> and dealing with it isn't nationwide policy.  Just an isolated, ignorant 
> incident.
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