Originally Posted by
petaluma1
Only 4 percent of travelers are PreCheck members. [...]
That's far, far fewer that I had guessed. He's never going to get the "millions more" that Pistole said last fall were needed in order for PreCheck to work as envisioned.
TSA can get there quite easily. All it has to do is give up on the $17/year fee, payable in five-year chunks. The efficiencies that TSA would gain from performing its "background check" on anyone willing to enroll would more than compensate for the loss in fees.
Given that I fly only 1-2 times a year, and sometimes through airports that don't have Pre-Check, it's simply not worth my money to apply.