Originally Posted by
joshwex90
On the GOES front, yes. Regarding elites, once UA gets the IT capability to encode the BP with TT info, there's no reason why they can only encode the BP at EWR and not other airports. If the TSA can't be set up at all terminals at ORD, for example, fine. But as long as they're set up where I'm flying out of, even if I'm on a different airline, if the airline, be it AA, DL, or UA, has the ability to encode the BP, then they should always be able to, regardless of the airport.
And that stinks about international travel. Why? I hadn't heard that - I'm mostly on international travel
It's possible they're already encoding all BPs for an eligible traveller. We have no way of verifying that one way or the other. If I'm TT on UA, Precheck-eligible, have used TT at EWR and have a return flight from COS (no Pre-check yet), how do I know if my BP is coded or not? I can't tell by looking and there's no TDC checking for it.
See the AA forum on this subject. It appears that international itineraries preclude getting the LLL, at least on the outbound, even on the domestic leg (if there is one). On the return, however, I think someone figured out that if you have a final connecting domestic leg and have to pass through TSA, Pre-check seems to work on that flight.
And no, no one understands this. As one poster observed, you could book two separate tickets, one domestic, one for the international itinerary, and probably circumvent this. There's some precedent for this, although I have never understood it. If I am booked domestic-intl-intl-domestic, when I check in for my domestic flight, I have to show passport and visa, if relevant - even though my connection always entails a plane/terminal change, and even though my international departure still requires me to show the passport/visa if required again.