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May 19, 2014 | 9:37 am

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chucko

Join Date: Apr 2003

Location: Seattle, Wash. USA

Posts: 1,568

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Originally Posted by r22r44bell47

I've just had what can only be described as a good experience with TSA - my BP for a US domestic flight has the TSA PRECHK annotation and I whizzed straight past the queues and was through screening in 10 seconds. All very nice but does anyone out there how this gets decided - I'm not a US citizen and not eligible for Global Entry so don't seem to meet any of the criteria the TSA sets out in its FAQ for their Pre scheme. Is there a link with BAEC - US citizens who are members of selected FF programs can be eligible?? Just curious.....

Possibly it was due to your BAEC status, translated into OW status on the BP. PreCheck was originally offered to members of some airlines' FF programs, and those in Global Entry. It's a great program, though lately some of the lines for PreCheck are longer than for "normal" screening.

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