inspcalahan
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Story time to give you something to ponder....
About a week ago, I fly down to the Phoenix area on American Airlines to visit family. I took down a few firearms in checked baggage as well. About a week later, I go to the airport to check in for my return flight. Before getting to the counter to declare the firearms in my luggage, I'm directed to the computer kiosk to start the process. I slide in my credit card to use to "identify" me and search for the reservations. Other options were swiping a passport or scanning a printed e-reservation if you had them.
Before anything else pops up on the screen about my reservations, a screen shows up saying "please see the attendant to declare your firearm". Simply from my credit card swipe.
Now I get that I'm on the second leg of a round trip flight reservation. I lawfully and correctly declared them on the first leg. Prior to getting the chance on the return leg, this occurred. Is it an "assumption" that I must have the firearms on the return flight also??? Is it linked to my credit card? Or just because it's my ID info? What if I had left my firearms there? Is this a way to track where firearms are ending up??
Not that big of a deal since I'm playing by the rules anyway, but it just seemed to kind of get my goat a bit.
Anyone else had this happen?? I fly quite frequently with declared firearms in my luggage, but this was the first time I've seen this happen.
About a week ago, I fly down to the Phoenix area on American Airlines to visit family. I took down a few firearms in checked baggage as well. About a week later, I go to the airport to check in for my return flight. Before getting to the counter to declare the firearms in my luggage, I'm directed to the computer kiosk to start the process. I slide in my credit card to use to "identify" me and search for the reservations. Other options were swiping a passport or scanning a printed e-reservation if you had them.
Before anything else pops up on the screen about my reservations, a screen shows up saying "please see the attendant to declare your firearm". Simply from my credit card swipe.
Now I get that I'm on the second leg of a round trip flight reservation. I lawfully and correctly declared them on the first leg. Prior to getting the chance on the return leg, this occurred. Is it an "assumption" that I must have the firearms on the return flight also??? Is it linked to my credit card? Or just because it's my ID info? What if I had left my firearms there? Is this a way to track where firearms are ending up??
Not that big of a deal since I'm playing by the rules anyway, but it just seemed to kind of get my goat a bit.
Anyone else had this happen?? I fly quite frequently with declared firearms in my luggage, but this was the first time I've seen this happen.