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....