
The four 'dreaded' letters on airline boarding passes that travelers say they never want to see
Fox News
Airline travelers are going viral for sharing the details behind the "dreaded" letters "SSSS" that can appear on your boarding pass before a flight. Here's what they mean.
"SSSS are indeed four dreaded letters that no traveler should want to see on their boarding pass," Zach Griff, senior aviation writer for the New York-based travel blog The Point Guys, told Fox News Digital. "SSSS can also be entirely random, and there’s no way to know when booking your flight whether you’ll be chosen as SSSS." Sydney Borchers is a lifestyle production assistant with Fox News Digital.
"It stands for ‘secondary security screening selection,’ and it’s a measure implemented by security authorities in the U.S. to screen certain passengers with additional checks."