Originally Posted by
AJNEDC
Always better to use TSA Pre lines if one exists. It's much easier and you do not have to take out liquids etc as you have to do in Priority checks lines. I learnt that the hard way recently.
I disagree. Was at MSY back in October and the PreCheck line was 15+ minutes long, whereas the priority line was less than 5 minutes. Having to remove my shoes and laptop was a small price to pay to get through the checkpoint much more quickly. I generally do not travel with liquids other than single-serve packs of toothpaste, which I did not remove from my bag and nobody said anything. They did give me the PreCheck Lite treatment so it was probably overlooked.
-J.