"TSA Pre✓™ allows select frequent flyers of participating airlines and members of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Trusted Traveler programs who are flying on participating airlines, to receive expedited screening benefits during domestic travel. Eligible participants use dedicated screening lanes for screening benefits which include leaving on shoes, light outerwear and belts, as well as leaving laptops and 3-1-1 compliant liquids in carry-on bags."
"...Certain frequent travelers from Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, US Airways and certain members of CBP's Trusted Traveler programs, including Global Entry, SENTRI, and NEXUS who are U.S. citizens are eligible to participate when they are booked on a participating airline. As of November 15, 2012, Canadian citizens traveling domestically in the United States who are members of NEXUS are also qualified to participate in TSA Pre✓™. In addition, passengers 12 and younger are allowed through TSA Pre✓™ lanes with eligible passengers."
Link to FlyerGuide Wiki listing of American Airlines (only) TSA Pre✓™ checkpoints.
Link to FT thread AA Airport / Concourse TSA Pre-Check / Precheck Hours [only] (may not be current)
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Remember - not all counter boarding pass printers seem to be capable of printing the proper codes / encoding, and this probably applies to overseas locations in spades. My CDG-issued BP did not allow me DFW D30 PreCheck access last week, for example. There seem to be some small flies in the ointment as yet, but they will be revealed here and probably eventually dealt with by STA / AA.
bklink, AA seems to be rather slow at updating many parts of its website. In this instance, I'd go with the TSA site.
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Remember - not all counter boarding pass printers seem to be capable of printing the proper codes / encoding, and this probably applies to overseas locations in spades. My CDG-issued BP did not allow me DFW D30 PreCheck access last week, for example. There seem to be some small flies in the ointment as yet, but they will be revealed here and probably eventually dealt with by STA / AA.
I have the same issue at JFK even when I use a kiosk at JFK to reprint my BP... I do think things will get better over time though--fingers crossed!
Recently got off a TPAC flight at LAX, and was denied precheck access at T4, even with a new boarding pass printed at LAX.
Good to hear that international itineraries are now working for some people, but it has yet to work for me in the last few international trips, whether domestic first or domestic last.
I had an agent reprint my onward boarding passes at LAX on Tuesday morning after QF 107SYD-LAX and received the LLL. I'm 2/2 so far, and both times have been at LAX. Hopefully I'll be 3/3 at JFK later next week.
For the first time I did see the evil glares from the Priority AAccess line as I was the only person going through the Precheck lane and 4 or 5 TSOs were just standing around.
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Monday at JFK, bad BP
About 4 pm on Memorial Day, I printed my BP at a kiosk at JFK (one just to the right of the premium check-in entrance). I needed a reprint because I had an upgrade clear late. Everything looked fine, but when I got to the gatekeeper, it wouldn't scan at all. She said to go in the PA line and ask for the TSO to rescan it. It wouldn't work on his scanner either. The PA only had 6 or 7 people, but that meant having to do the shoe carnival, etc. I found a line with the NOS roped off, but crew kept cutting in so it took ages to get through. (Note: I don't mean I didn't get LLL, I mean, the scanner didn't show anything, no beep, no name on display, etc.)
The BP wouldn't scan at the gate either. They had to manually 'on' me. I realize now that I should have gone back to get a new copy when it wouldn't scan at the gatekeeper. It's easy to duck out there, and not easy to duck out beyond that.
Has anyone else had a bad BP?
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Note, if you use Pre for the primary reason of avoiding the new machines (anything other than a metal detector), then at SLC use T2 (AA is at T1) and try the DL Pre line (it may or may not work - I am 0/2 but both are SLC/LAX connecting to LAX/NRT), as there is one (the middle) line at T2 that has only a metal detector machine (doesn't have a new machine and metal detector side-by-side as so many lines at airports now have).
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Note, if you use Pre for the primary reason of avoiding the new machines (anything other than a metal detector), then at SLC use T2 (AA is at T1) and try the DL Pre line (it may or may not work - I am 0/2 but both are SLC/LAX connecting to LAX/NRT), as there is one (the middle) line at T2 that has only a metal detector machine (doesn't have a new machine and metal detector side-by-side as so many lines at airports now have).
You comment raises a question that I do not think has been addressed:
If you are TT with Pre-Check on AA AND you print an AA boarding pass AND present that boarding pass at a check-in point that has Pre-Check but technically with another airline (ie DL). Will you get LLLs and be able to go through Pre-Check?
I have Pre-Check through AA via status but also have GE and have entered my info into AA, US, DL. I fly exPHL a lot and there are rumors that Pre-Check is coming to PHL. So, if I check in for my AA flight in PHL, will it work?
You comment raises a question that I do not think has been addressed:
If you are TT with Pre-Check on AA AND you print an AA boarding pass AND present that boarding pass at a check-in point that has Pre-Check but technically with another airline (ie DL). Will you get LLLs and be able to go through Pre-Check?
I have Pre-Check through AA via status but also have GE and have entered my info into AA, US, DL. I fly exPHL a lot and there are rumors that Pre-Check is coming to PHL. So, if I check in for my AA flight in PHL, will it work?
I think there was some past discussion on your first point. I posted that I was told by an SLC TSA Supervisor that DL has newer machines that can read AA BP bar codes (so an AA flyer can get a LLL from a DL scan machine). That being said, I am 0/2 trying, but note that both were domestic segments connecting to an int'l segment.
As for your second question, based on what I was told, in PHL it would depend on the specific scanners that US end up using.
I think there was some past discussion on your first point. I posted that I was told by an SLC TSA Supervisor that DL has newer machines that can read AA BP bar codes (so an AA flyer can get a LLL from a DL scan machine). That being said, I am 0/2 trying, but note that both were domestic segments connecting to an int'l segment.
As for your second question, based on what I was told, in PHL it would depend on the specific scanners that US end up using.
My AA boarding pass LLL'd at Alaska's Pre-Check line at SEA a few weeks ago.
If you are TT with Pre-Check on AA AND you print an AA boarding pass AND present that boarding pass at a check-in point that has Pre-Check but technically with another airline (ie DL). Will you get LLLs and be able to go through Pre-Check?
Generally speaking yes, assuming you are in the random selection of yes.
Restrictions as to using it at a particular airport and/or airline are either due to secure area issues (ie physically different secure areas), practical issues (security checkpoint for one airline is different than another, such as DFW), or artificial (SEA up to this point, where they are checking which airline you are flying before entering the PreCheck line).
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Great - thanks for the data points on Pre-Check via other entry points.
Seems AA just embeds the info on ones boarding pass irrespective of whether it is an airport that offers Pre-Check. One wonders if TSA agent sees LLLs irrespective of Pre-Check availability. As noted, it may be scanner related.
Worked on the domestic portion of an international FCO-JFK-SFO itinerary. Even with checked bags, GE + PreCheck = Less than 20 minutes from plane to Flagship lounge. My friend is a GLD with GE and even she got LLL. Lots of ugly looks in our direction.
I do think things will get better over time though--fingers crossed!
