Originally Posted by
CDKing
Do you care to elaborate? Why would you care if there is no added security? TSA has been a joke since day one. If i don't have to waste my time opting out, practically stripping myself and the contents of my bag for the x-ray, playing the stupid say your name, or answering 20 questions irrelevant to aviation security, why is this a bad thing? I wouldn't call myself gullible, i'm not sharing any information that TSA doesn't already have based on secure flight data you are required to give when booking a ticket.
Passenger A flies 100,000 miles a year on Delta.
Passenger B flies 100,000 miles a year but spread across several airlines and does not have elite status on any one of them.
Passenger A flies 100,000 miles a year from ATL.
Passenger B flies 100,000 miles a year from some tiny airport that sees a handful of flights each day.
DHS deems passenger A less of a threat than passenger B.
Need I say more?
What are the costs of rolling out PreCheck? What are the software development costs in integrating each airline's systems with that of the TSA?
You won't even know until you get to the checkpoint whether you have qualified that day for the quicker screening. So you still have to show up early enough to account for a longer queue.
How about we have a tiered speed limit on the nation's highways? Experienced drivers can go ten miles per hour faster than everyone else. But you won't know until you get on the highway whether you can go in the special "experienced" lane and drive faster.