Originally Posted by
chollie
BTW - they paid for Precheck but didn't get it because it was closed.
The author even gives the TSA a pass over ExtortionCheck being closed:
The only problem was that the TSA PreCheck lane was actually closed. I’m assuming this was because it was 2:30pm on a Thursday and not a lot of business travelers were using it at that time. But we were given a red pass so we didn’t have to take our shoes off or go through the millimeter wave scanner, but we did have to take our laptops and liquids out. Otherwise, we just had to the walk through the metal detector.
Read more at:
http://www.johnnyjet.com/tsa-called-explosives-unit/