Posted on 05/25/2016 4:05:40 PM PDT by metmom
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By Matt Finn Published May 25, 2016 FoxNews.com Facebook5 Twitter137 livefyre16 Email Print
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Travelers experiencing problems with TSA pre-check
With the Transportation Security Administration warning passengers that long lines at major airports are not going away, it seems the only immediate relief in sight is the TSA’s PreCheck option -- designed to get passengers through security faster.
But critics aren’t so sure. They say the pass is just a moneymaker for the TSA that’s facing its own application backlog and doesn’t always work at certain airports, anyway.
“I was at LaGuardia airport just yesterday and actually the PreCheck wasn’t open, so I had to wait in line, a long line with everyone else,” said travel expert Lee Abbamonte. “Not that that’s the worst thing in the world, but if you paid the money for PreCheck you want to actually get the benefits that you paid for.”
He’s not alone. The TSA acknowledged to Fox News it does close the PreCheck lines from time to time at certain airports when there is a lack of anticipated demand.
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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.
It’s all BS.
I noticed on my ticket that it says, “cleared.”
I go through without a hitch.
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.
Might as well give them a DNA sample while you are at it.
Get it all official. NCIC
Make it easy when they come for you. But instead of arresting you they arrest your neighbor and shoot his dog.
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.
We got that once at random.
I think it’s a ploy to entice people to sign up.
BuffaloJack wrote: “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.”
Perhaps, but rewind the time machine to 2001, way back when this extra security started. Many folks were insisting that TSA enact a “known traveler” systems such as Pre-check. Lot’s of folks here on FreeRepublic were also insisting on it.
The real reason for the long lines are unions. The American Federation of Government Employees wants the government to grant full representation where AFGE can negotiate payscales, work hours, work conditions, etc. This is a deliberate slow down to get this passed.
I thought it was just because I’ve flown on them before and they “know” me.
I’ve been on trips where I had pre-Check on the outbound flight, but not on the return flight. Crazy.
It is not random at all for those who get pre-check with not signing up for it. If you have a history of flying, older age, a child, and others....... you might be added to the pre-check line occasionally. Probably also has a lot to do with lower number of pre-check flyers for a given time of day when precheck lines are light.
I can't imagine how many flights I would have missed without it.
Same here; But not being a frequent flyer, I can't be a good example of the concept.
The only time I had to experience long lines was when the initiating flight was canceled due to equipment failure (and connecting flights are a chain reaction.)
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