Originally Posted by
swag
Ross, can you tell us about "expedited screening" offered to passengers with Pre-check using checkpoints that don't have Pre-check? It seems to entail a Pre-check style screening for your person (WTMD, shoes on) but standard screening for your bags (laptop & liquids out).
See this thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trust...ne-closed.html
Is this becoming a standard offering? Will it be offered at any non-Pre checkpoint? Or only at certain airports and/or checkpoints and/or hours?
I just went through this at KOA where there is no dedicated Pre lane. I was handed a yellow card to show the WTMD attendant, and kept my shoes on, but the laptop had to come out (liquids stayed in, but they always did even before Pre).
Contrast this with my experience at OGG - same setup without a dedicated Pre lane, but the innovative staff there have a different routine. Once you 3-beep, the ID checker yells out "pre-check!!" and a screener comes over and escorts you to the front of the line (shooing away any busybody onlookers), places your items on the belt with a colored bowl in front of, then behind your items, and then calls to the x-ray attendant that pre-check bags are coming through between the bowls with electronics and liquids inside - and you go through the WTMD with shoes on.
Not ideal for those looking to keep a low profile or avoid death stares from Kettles, but definitely effective and more useful than the yellow card routine and partial-Pre.