It is probably the case with all airlines. I'm not sure how CO/NW work, but most airlines do not share full PNR data with one another, therefore, they won't have the necessary information to determine whether or not the passenger should be a profilee, and so they automatically become one. I would imagine this to change as alliance partners realize the need to make alliance travel a truly seamless experience. On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Jeff Givens wrote: > On 23 Nov 2002 at 9:54, David Ross wrote: > > > What does it matter if you get the boarding pass at the gate or > > outsideof the "secured" area? You still need a ticket to get in. > > The reason for all this boarding pass stuff is that TSA wants to remove the > secondary screening from the gate area. They are going to rely on the airlines' > computers to apply the profiling data and to mark the boarding passes as such. > They will also be doing the so-called "random" screenings, selecting people based > on unpublished criteria. > > Speaking of profiling, I learned something else recently. If you codeshare you can > absolutely count on being luggage searched and gate(or wherever) searched. It was > recently explained to me, on CO at least, that any passenger appearing with a ticket > on stock other than the airline in use, is automatically flagged for full security > screenings. > > So if you book a NW codeshare on CO, through NW of course, you can bet the > ranch you will be hassled. > > This totally kills the cross-marketing codeshare thing, when travelers realize this > they will avoid it like the plague. > > > _____________________________________________ > > mailto:jgivens@comcast.net > > A random MP quote: > "American beer is like making love in a canoe...it's *** close to water!" >