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Old Jun 27, 2022 | 4:11 pm
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Originally Posted by SFO_FT
Nope. It’s not a cost issue. Even Spirit Airlines, an ultra LCC in the US, participates. TSA wants carriers to participate as every passenger that uses PreCheck costs the TSA, and the airlines who pay for it, less than non-PreCheck pax. Maybe it’s a customer data sharing issue with AirNZ.
Yes but Spirit nearly all their customers would be eligible. So they can spread their fixed costs of running the integration & initial setup over more pax and flights.
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