Originally Posted by guflyer

There are three reasons that I still care about Precheck and hope that it will not be eliminated (I am hoping that they earn enough money from the fees that they will want to keep it.

1. The primary reason is that it allows the WTMD to be the primary screening apparatus and that I can avoid having to opt out to avoid going through body scanners a majority of the time. Many airports have random selection and I hate this, but at least the selection rate is usually low enough that I can avoid it easily. Also, there are fortunately quite a few airport terminals where there are Precheck lanes where there is no body scanner to send people to when they set off the random alarm on the WTMD. Even some airports that have a body scanner next to the WTMD will often do other tests such as a swab test on one's phone.

2. Not all but a significant percentage of people who have Precheck know that they are doing. It reminds me of the frequent flier in "Up in the Air" describing which passengers to be behind in a security line. Because of this, the lines often bring about less frustration. Of course, there are a lot of exceptions relating to this.

3. Having an extra benefit/status that the majority does not have makes things go better for those who have it. I was thinking about how when there were huge lines at St. Louis airport recently, one of the things that was mentioned was that most of the people did not have Precheck, implying that those (without checked bags) with Precheck would have most likely not had to wait as long. I would get Clear for this reason, but I do not like giving a company a scan of my eyes. If they moved to only photo I would likely add Clear for this reason. I have been hoping that with the new biometric ID options through many airlines, Clear would be going away and that this, which is based only on photo ID, would be the new way to get a shorter line.