Originally Posted by TierFlyer
As i said, if it saves me five minutes/airport trip I'd pay for it without hesitation.
I haven't had to wait more than five minutes or so to go through a security line in quite some time. At many airports recently they'd have to turn the hands of time back to save me five minutes.
Of course, if this thing gets going, then it will be no surprise to me if the TSA sets things up so that anyone who is not a registered traveler all of a sudden starts facing newly long lines. Then we'll effectively be forced to sign up for the "voluntary" tracking program. And fees will magically rise at the same time.
Originally Posted by SJC ORD LDR
I thought the one benefit is that you don't get haraSSSSed at the airport. I read that somewhere (wish I remembered where). That was the one thing that was positive about the program.
Chertoff said that as of right now, the only thing that the program guarantees is that you'll get a dedicated line at participating airports. No guarantee that it will be shorter or faster. He did say that in the future they might relax the rules for registered travelers. In particular he said that they may not be subject to
questioning at the checkpoint, which I thought was interesting because there's no systematic questioning at the checkpoint now. So it seems like he intends to implement questioning soon.