Originally Posted by
Unimatrix One
my family will be flying from Japan to the US in August in paid J, with *Gold status, and I will be seriously peeved if we do not get priority security at ORD during our transfer.
There are many countries that not give priority to J passengers for security screening - not sure that is worth being a serious source of angst. The Premier priority security lines were somewhat superseded by TSA Precheck (and later also CLEAR) and the US airlines seem to have invested in partnerships that give their elites (discounted or complimentary) access to those programs. Of course that disadvantages the non-US resident, but in the bigger scheme I suspect many of those premier lines became redundant and impractical - its a while since i have noticed an operational one but maybe I just have not been observant.