Originally Posted by
DanishFlyer
On the return flight, from outside of US, pre-check might help with special gate-security, but not the regular security. In my experience, many European airports require laptop out of sleeve, and tablet out of bag (although not out of the sleeves that are attached).
DanishFlyer
I agree. I carried our small laptop in a sleeve our last two trips to Europe. Returned out of Rome the first one and Athens the second. Security could have cared less about PreCheck on our boarding passes and I didn't expect they would. In both cases they asked that I take the laptop out of its sleeve. They did have a secondary security at the gate in Athens but they were stacked up with bag checks. We were waved through with just a glance at our passports but without them looking at our boarding passes so PreCheck didn't come into play.