Originally Posted by
Beckles
I'm not trying to split hairs here, but my understanding is not that the goal "is to get 85% of the flying public into PreCheck", but rather that 85% of passengers will get PreCheck. The difference is that some passengers who are not Known Travelers (e.g., PreCheck or Global Entry) or Invited Participants (e.g., airline elite members) will get PreCheck, as is already occurring. TSA could start giving 85% of passengers PreCheck today if they wanted to, but most airports are not yet equipped to handle that many PreCheck passengers.
To get to 85% what will be happening is even passengers who are not Known Travelers or Invited Participants will get PreCheck a significant amount of the time (50% or so ...).
I think this is what will happen. As TSA's Secure Flight database gets bigger they will be able to identify most frequent fliers and include them in. I'm not an invitee nor do I have a KTN and I'm already getting close to 30% (I got it yesterday in fact). My wife who flies more than I do would already be approaching 50%, if she weren't flying Airtran a lot.