Traveling With Non PreCheck Companions/Family Members
Feb 15, 2014, 8:34 am
#31
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So the kids and I had precheck last night, wife did not. We all went in the precheck line and the doc checker wrote a big CT on my wife's BP indicating she is a "co-traveller", which basically just required that she present her BP as she went through the wtmd and get her hands and shoes swabbed. Otherwise, it was the usual precheck experience.
I would suggest bringing your non-precheck traveling companions with you into the precheck line, as they now seem to have a process to account for them.
I would suggest bringing your non-precheck traveling companions with you into the precheck line, as they now seem to have a process to account for them.
Feb 15, 2014, 9:53 am
#33
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If you've gotten GE recently, your GE number (PassID) is what you put in as your trusted traveler (aka "known traveler") number in your airline profile. Here's a link to additional info: http://www.globalentry.gov/tsa.html
However, the other poster indicated that they had a trusted traveler number for only PreCheck, and they didn't indicate Global Entry. I had never heard of that.
Feb 15, 2014, 4:31 pm
#34
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So the kids and I had precheck last night, wife did not. We all went in the precheck line and the doc checker wrote a big CT on my wife's BP indicating she is a "co-traveller", which basically just required that she present her BP as she went through the wtmd and get her hands and shoes swabbed. Otherwise, it was the usual precheck experience.
I would suggest bringing your non-precheck traveling companions with you into the precheck line, as they now seem to have a process to account for them.
I would suggest bringing your non-precheck traveling companions with you into the precheck line, as they now seem to have a process to account for them.
Feb 15, 2014, 7:18 pm
#35
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Feb 16, 2014, 10:03 am
#36
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TSA Pre-Check for Family
Booked a family trip with three different confirmation numbers (reservations) LGA-MCO. I didn't have enough points at time of first booking for all.
1. Wife, daughter 13, son 5... booked all on points.
2. Son 16 booked on points
3. Myself using $200 voucher and rest paid with $.
I linked the reservations.
I just checked us all in and Me, my wife and my 5 year old are TSA pre check. My 13 year old and 16 year old are not. Frankly, I wasn't expecting any of them to get pre-check. Why some and not the others. What's the rule for families?
1. Wife, daughter 13, son 5... booked all on points.
2. Son 16 booked on points
3. Myself using $200 voucher and rest paid with $.
I linked the reservations.
I just checked us all in and Me, my wife and my 5 year old are TSA pre check. My 13 year old and 16 year old are not. Frankly, I wasn't expecting any of them to get pre-check. Why some and not the others. What's the rule for families?
Feb 16, 2014, 10:18 am
#39
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I noticed that at ORD this weekend. Lots of families with little kids, some in strollers, getting Pre-Check. The Pre-Check line was slower than the standard line. TSO called for a bag check on a stroller, then left the stroller and the family bags on the conveyor for 7 or 8 minutes waiting for someone to come do a bag check. That blocked the conveyor, they stopped it and no one got to move through the system until that happened. 
Feb 16, 2014, 10:27 am
#40
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Can't explain your wife getting it, but that's why your one child did and not the other two. Often, the adult with the qualifying child gets it, or your wife may have randomly gotten it, or your wife may have something in her profile which causes TSA to think she isn't a threat. We'll likely never know for sure. As for your five year old, though, it's a given.
Feb 16, 2014, 10:31 am
#41
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I can't bring 13 and 16 year old through pre-check with us, can I? It doesn't make sense they would have a reservation that gives one adult, one 5 year old pre check and not the another 13 year old minor. What parent would let a 13 year olf go through regular security by herself?
Feb 16, 2014, 10:34 am
#42
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Unless the two older children have PC on their BPs, they are not eligible. You would have to go with them through the regular line. FWIW, I have allowed a 14 and 17 year old to go through the regular line on their own. Heck, the 17 YO flies on her own, just being dropped at the door of the airport.
Feb 16, 2014, 10:41 am
#43
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I can't bring 13 and 16 year old through pre-check with us, can I? It doesn't make sense they would have a reservation that gives one adult, one 5 year old pre check and not the another 13 year old minor. What parent would let a 13 year olf go through regular security by herself?
(yes, this is meant as a joke,
though, my entire family does have GE)
Feb 16, 2014, 10:41 am
#44
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I noticed that at ORD this weekend. Lots of families with little kids, some in strollers, getting Pre-Check. The Pre-Check line was slower than the standard line. TSO called for a bag check on a stroller, then left the stroller and the family bags on the conveyor for 7 or 8 minutes waiting for someone to come do a bag check. That blocked the conveyor, they stopped it and no one got to move through the system until that happened.
I wonder what the government cutoff age is to be considered "elderly" for PreCheck purposes.
I recently got to go through PreCheck with my daughter, while my wife was accused of having explosives residue on her hands and whisked away to a private room with a screaming baby in hand. I'm glad the TSA has learned to profile people carrying babies as a risk.
Feb 16, 2014, 11:08 am
#45
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(and, of course, I have no intention of meaning that your wife fits this profile)