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Old Feb 26, 2013, 10:40 pm
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alphaeagle
 
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Originally Posted by jackal
Interesting that you got a CBP guy who even knew what PreCheck was, not to mention the details and workings behind it. I asked my CBP guy about PreCheck and he didn't even know what it was. When I started to say, "the TSA priority screening program," he interrupted me and said, "TSA is DHS. We don't deal with that here."

I'm also slightly confused what slots he's talking about. The more slots for what are available for elites?
Maybe part of the randomness is that, say, AS gets 100 "slots" for passengers to use pre-check per day. If there are 105 AS passengers that qualify in a day, at least 5 won't be get the triple beep.
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