If your name is even remotely "exotic" (and mine seems to be), good luck checking in online - apparently one way tickets trigger some alarm in the depths of DHS.
That is true. And that basically tells us how stupid and ridiculous our security theater is. Someone planning to blow themselves up will supposedly save a couple of hundreds dollars in order to attract attention to themselves by buying a one-way ticket.
I suppose their assumption is that people planning to do that don't know this/are dumb.
Is it the alien or the fluid that's more exotic? Or are we talking Mohammed or Ahmed?
Lol .. I haven't tried traveling with Alien Fluid yet, but will let you know how that goes ;). It's Ahmed that gets me caught up every time.