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Old Oct 17, 2012, 6:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Hartmann
Started reading through this thread and after looking at a couple of recent boarding passes, came across some weirdness.

My boarding pass from this past Monday had a 3 at the end. Today I checked-in for my return and changed my flight. When I scanned the boarding pass the last number was a 0.

I was under the impression that if you had PreCheck on the outbound, you'd have it on the return. Is that not actually the case? What does the 0 actually mean, that the PreCheck data hasn't been found?
As you know, the TSA is all about making things unpredictable and random. Sometimes you'll get pre-check, other times you won't. Receiving it on the outbound doesn't mean you'll have it on the return. 0 just means you don't get to go through the pre-check lane. That's all. Could be random, could be something else.
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