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Old Nov 12, 2015 | 11:33 am
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Originally Posted by hughw
No rhyme or reason...both my wife and I had flown TATL in July so our passports had been recently used...we went to check in for Paris last week, and she got "this is not a boarding pass." So I fired up my trusty UA app on my iPhone, ran through check-in again, and got the option to take a picture of her passport. A minute later, we're both checked in and TSA-Pre.
Why do some people get th option of the visual scan of the passport and others don't?


Great idea to put a 'tell' in the TINABP message so that any potential bad guy knows he is at least being SSSS....
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