Originally Posted by
Time traveller
AFAIK all three US legacy airlines (DL/UA/AA) use contract people to do secondary screenings at the gate at LHR. These security screenings seem random and not related to whether one has TSA pre-check or not. I usually fly AA and I have been selected for these secondary screenings a few times, although I have had TSA pre-check via Global Entry for a long time. It is a pain to go through these screenings, but then we live in a very different era from a generation ago.
Yeah, I certainly get that times have changed. I get the random secondary screening bit, so if she had just said that, I wouldn't have given it much thought...it was the reference to TSA Precheck as the reason that really threw me off.
Anyway, appreciate everyone's input - I don't mean to make a mountain out of a molehill.