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Old Jan 8, 2013 | 3:32 pm
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This program sounds like an excuse to cover up the failures of PreCheck. Not enough airlines are participating, not enough people are signing up for Global Entry, name mismatch problems are keeping people from using it, and so on. Setting aside a lane for PreCheck at each terminal results in congestion in the other lanes. This program seems to be designed to remedy that by shifting more people into the PreCheck lanes.

I would be interested to know on what basis people will be pulled into the PreCheck lanes. My guess is that it will be based on crowd level. If the checkpoint is congested, a few people will be "invited" to go through PreCheck, just like they currently open WTMD lanes to reduce congestion. Of course, there is going to be a racial bias to it, regardless of what anyone claims.
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