Originally Posted by
GUWonder
It's PreCheck lines that should always be open and being used for most passengers, while the non-PreCheck screening should be for a random minority if anybody. Then all these ridiculous slowdowns at airport screening checkpoints in the US would be subject to being fixed even further. PreCheck type screening at airports should be the norm not the exception, and yet TSA markets it as an exception and this closes down these lines however the TSA employees in charge of the site want it.
I'm beginning to see PreCheck not as a method of giving expedited screening to certain people but rather as a method of having as many air passengers "fully vetted" as possible.
TSA just couldn't state: You must let us do a background check on you before you can board a plane" - they knew that wouldn't fly (pun intended).
So they came up with PreCheck "perks" of allowing passengers to keep their shoes and clothes on in exchange for their
fingerprints and background checks.
PreCheck isn't about "expedited screening", it's about having as much info as possible on as many passengers as possible.