Some airlines don’t issue precheck tickets because TSA shakes them down too. Frontier doesn’t participate.
The answer is to give the job to the airlines. They have the financial risk, and the reward for speeding up service. Get the government out of our lives!
What a great idea.
Instead of forcing compliance with registering with the government and forcing fingerprinting on everyone, make it voluntary under the guise of making people''s lives easier and charge them to boot.
Then you'll have everyone rushing to get on a government database, like lemmings going over a cliff.
Most times my ticket say TSA Pre on them, and I never applied for anything special.
I have been a pre-check recipient on several occasions and have never paid for this “privelege’. I chalk it up to my days as an airline employee and a military man and having gone thru the background screening which was required back then.
My bookings for travel are generally done a couple months or more in advance and I always pay with a credit card, never cash. However, on my return flight on Southwest earlier this month I headed for the pre-check corral only to be turned away and I took my place in a long line of other cattle and then I was selected for additional screening. Must have been the scowl on my face that triggered the action.
I have what’s call “A Known Traveler Number” or KTN because of my job. It cost $85 but fortunately my employer paid for it but some folks have to pay for it themselves just to be able to go through the Pre-Check line faster. A money scam.
So I got the full inspection. Can't really blame TSA too much as I should have washed the backpack after Iraq.
I have been told that if you have a military ID card and enter the DoD ID NUMBER with your ticket it will qualify for TSA Pre Check.
Anyway, everything was good for at least two years. But in my four flights since April (two round trips, all on United) I've only had a Pre-check boarding pass on two of them. One of those times there were mega-crowds waiting to go through security and I only made my flight because good people let me skip past them.
I'd be for a new system where only foreigners, and those for whom English is obviously not their mother tongue, would be searched. It's almost the way they do it in Israel. I'm generally through security there in under a minute.
ML/NJ
LaGardia is an exception - they simply don’t have the room for pre-check lanes. It is a very small airport, but at a great location for getting to ‘the city’. The vast majority of large airports have Pre-check and it works almost all the time.
But I guess this guy had some copy to fill, or something.
The long lines are being created by TSA so than they can sell the $85 per head pre-check. Just think. A family of 4 means $340 to the TSA.
I’ve been on trips where I had pre-Check on the outbound flight, but not on the return flight. Crazy.
I can't imagine how many flights I would have missed without it.