Originally Posted by mxracer95

I do agree it is a bit annoying when traveling outside of TSA-Pre hours, but those are low volume times when they don't have the staffing for it, and that makes sense. Still, not having to remove items from your bag, or remove your shoes or other clothing and not going through the full body scanner (which I always opt-out anyway) is still a good benefit.

Originally Posted by FlyingEgghead

Interesting -- my understanding was that in those combined lines, you typically get "PreCheck-light", which applies to your person (i.e., you go through the metal detector rather than the full body scanner, and keep on your shoes, jacket, etc.) but not to your bags (i.e., you still have to take out your laptop). This is because the laminated paper stays with you and you give it to the metal detector agent, but they don't have a way to associate PreCheck with your bag as it goes through the X-ray along with non-PreCheck bags.