Kinda did it out of curiosity too but wasn't too happy with having to put so much personal info out there.
How many chips do they insert?
“Got to travel thru Chicago in a couple of months and the horror stories were non-stop”
My mother and sister hired a limo to drive them from Tampa to Tallahassee and back. A uniformed driver picked them up, loaded their luggage and they rode the five your trip in the back of a Lincoln Continental. It cost less than the air fare; $400 for round trip. You might investigate Uber too.
It’s worth it. I’ve saved a lot of time at the airport.
They took retinal scans and fingerprints when I applied back in 2012.
This is Global Entry. Definitely worth it for international travel, as you bypass immigration with a simple kiosk. Side benefit is TSA Pre-Check on all domestic flights. $100 for 5 years.
Yes, it was easy to enroll, but it is only good for international travel, not national flights.
GOES is for international travel to bypass the long lines at Customs. That’s a good thing, but for national travel the trusted traveller # gets you TSA pre-check which, in my three years experience with it, has been worth every penny. Mere minutes in line and that’s been my experience in Orlando, L.A., D.C., Atlanta airports.
“they” have already got your personal info; you’re just confirming it :) as you will soon find out if you ever try to qualify with Western Union to send money and forget your address from 30 years ago by one digit and get bounced.
in addition to Global Pass (and the reciprocal domestic pre-check by some airlines) there’s always the private route:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/21/the-uber-for-private-jets-has-landed.html