Originally Posted by
chollie
Actually, this might not be such a great deal for someone who has airline status/credit card that pays for GE anyway. My friend will have to pay for NEXUS and he'll get GE free, but if he didn't have NEXUS, GE would still be 'free' (paid for by airline/credit card company).
While I can't speak for all airlines, for United flyers who earn this benefit UA will pay for GE or Nexus... since Nexus gets you GE anyway and it's half the price of GE by itself it would be silly for airlines to exclude Nexus.
I got my GE membership prior to UA offering the reimbursement..but when I added Nexus last year I submitted the expense to UA and they credited my travel bank with the $50 fee (now they have a different set up where they'll just pay the fee directly for you..but that wasn't around when I got Nexus).