Originally Posted by
Kiwi Flyer
It is up to the airline to select who gets exempt and who does not.
And on a recent UK to US flight I took they seemed to only do the secondary screening on the first X number of passengers to arrive in the gate lounge area, they stopped pulling pax to one side for the checks about five people in front of me in the line and waved the rest of us through. Good news for anyone dawdling at the lounge...