Traveling With Non PreCheck Companions/Family Members
Feb 16, 2014, 11:15 am
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I've noticed this as well recently. PreCheck is now packed with kids and the elderly. Just a few days ago, I saw an elderly woman who looked really lost entering security, and I asked to see her boarding pass. Sure enough--PreCheck. I guided her to the line, and she told me she had no idea what PreCheck meant.
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.
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.
tablet the night before.....oopps...lol.
Feb 16, 2014, 11:40 am
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Last weekend I flew LAX/OAK on Friday afternoon, and OAK/LAX on Saturday morning. I printed both boarding passes in the same transaction at the same kiosk at LAX on Friday, and DID NOT get Precheck ot the outbound, and DID get it on the way back!
So, I guess I was only a potential threat in one direction!
Anyway, I guess it's totally random. Don't try'n figure it out!
So, I guess I was only a potential threat in one direction!
Anyway, I guess it's totally random. Don't try'n figure it out!
Feb 16, 2014, 1:00 pm
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Feb 16, 2014, 2:07 pm
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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. 
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Feb 16, 2014, 3:11 pm
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I got GE for entire family.
Insures 100% Pre-check.
Used to get stink-eye from Dragon when we would walk up as they were ready to tell me should couldn't go in line.
Back in the good old days, TSA would comment that she was the youngest Pre-Check he had seen at MSP.
Insures 100% Pre-check.
Used to get stink-eye from Dragon when we would walk up as they were ready to tell me should couldn't go in line.
Back in the good old days, TSA would comment that she was the youngest Pre-Check he had seen at MSP.
Feb 16, 2014, 4:25 pm
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GE has a very high percentage but it does not insure 100%
Feb 16, 2014, 5:03 pm
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Feb 16, 2014, 8:48 pm
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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, 10:03 pm
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Feb 17, 2014, 12:22 am
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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.
and even then the U12 or even a U2/U3/U4/U5/U6 may not even be given it on the boarding pass while the child pax mainly still is entitled to PreCheck LLL screening when accompanied by any PreCheck eligible passenger regardless of what is on the boarding pass of the child scheduled to depart then from that airport.
The fact of the matter is that even the adult with the accompanying U12 child may not get PreCheck LLL and may even get haraSSSSment selected whether or not the young children's boarding passes indicate PreCheck LLL or not. [I've seen it even hit GE members at ORD last week, and it makes for an interesting scene when the travel parties consist of a single adult with two pre-pre-school children on the same ticketed itinerary and the "older" pre-KG children are PreCheck LLL but the younger of the pre-pre-school/pre-KG children are not while the accompanying adult on the same PNR is an ICS/haraSSSSment target.]
Feb 17, 2014, 12:26 am
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Linked reservations or not, single PNR or not, in the scenario of 13+ years-old children without PreCheck on their own boarding passes, that can and often does scuttle plans to go through the same security screening all the way on a given day unless abandoning the PreCheck line at the start.
Feb 17, 2014, 10:53 am
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Recently flew from LAX to Hawaii with wife, sister, and brother-in-law. I am a 2,000,000 mile lifetime Premier Platinum with United, so I was expecting TSA Pre-Check as I have received in the past. Instead, my wife, sister, and brother-in-law got pre-check and I didn't. I asked at Premier Access check-in and was told that the word of the day was random. Same thing happened on return trip. Amazing.
Feb 17, 2014, 12:18 pm
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Hi,
I'm traveling on a USAir flight, using AA frequent flyer numbers. I went to check in myself and two others for our flight tomorrow AM. Everything was fine, until I created the boarding passes. I have TSA pre-check...it did not print on my boarding pass but printed on the boarding pass of another traveler who does not have pre-check. I logged back in to verify FF numbers were correct on the USAir site and they are. I can't get through to the 800 - it says they are getting too many calls. Any suggestions on what to do? That could be a scary technical glitch giving pre-check to someone who doesn't qualify.
Thanks!
I'm traveling on a USAir flight, using AA frequent flyer numbers. I went to check in myself and two others for our flight tomorrow AM. Everything was fine, until I created the boarding passes. I have TSA pre-check...it did not print on my boarding pass but printed on the boarding pass of another traveler who does not have pre-check. I logged back in to verify FF numbers were correct on the USAir site and they are. I can't get through to the 800 - it says they are getting too many calls. Any suggestions on what to do? That could be a scary technical glitch giving pre-check to someone who doesn't qualify.
Thanks!
Feb 17, 2014, 2:27 pm
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Recently flew from LAX to Hawaii with wife, sister, and brother-in-law. I am a 2,000,000 mile lifetime Premier Platinum with United, so I was expecting TSA Pre-Check as I have received in the past. Instead, my wife, sister, and brother-in-law got pre-check and I didn't. I asked at Premier Access check-in and was told that the word of the day was random. Same thing happened on return trip. Amazing.
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