TSA Pre✓ comes to Asiana
Feb 22, 2019, 8:24 am
#1
formerly 1984SW
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
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TSA Pre✓ comes to Asiana
Apparently Asiana has joined the program: https://www.tsa.gov/news/releases/20...-more-airlines
Feb 22, 2019, 12:34 pm
#2
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: New York
Programs: Marriott Bonvoy Lifetime Titanium, Delta Skymiles Platinum
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That is excellent news! My biggest objection to flying Asiana is not having TSA Precheck. I am flying in April and look forward to NOT packing my liquids separately, NOT taking my shoes off, and NOT taking out my laptop. Of course that means more time in the crappy Lufthansa lounge at JFK, but I will take the tradeoff!
Feb 22, 2019, 12:37 pm
#3
Join Date: May 2012
Location: SYD
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That is excellent news! My biggest objection to flying Asiana is not having TSA Precheck. I am flying in April and look forward to NOT packing my liquids separately, NOT taking my shoes off, and NOT taking out my laptop. Of course that means more time in the crappy Lufthansa lounge at JFK, but I will take the tradeoff!
Feb 23, 2019, 3:52 am
#6
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Thinking maybe the KTN could be entered on a PNR by PNR basis, I tried to access an upcoming OZ reservation. A few months ago there was a schedule change that I couldn't accept/acknowledge on the web site so I called the local OZ office to confirm the changes. Now today, it still throws up a schedule change page blocking actual access to the reservation (to add/change seat assignments, for example). Clicking the red "Confirm changed schedule" button throws up an "[ERROR]: A system error has occurred" message. I even tried using Internet Explorer, considering OZ's demonstrated level of web site engineering expertise. 😁
Asiana -- the gift that keeps giving...
Feb 23, 2019, 12:37 pm
#8
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They reviewed the new times with me and tidied up the PNR. Before the call, the new times were flagged as such for each flight, but now there is no indication on the individual flights, just a web page saying times have changed and then I can't get past that page.
Feb 25, 2019, 3:35 pm
#9
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Location: New York
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I have reservations for April, made through United, who has my TSA Pre number on file. I called Asiana to add my number to the reservation only to discover they already had it from United. So if you make a reservation on a partner site that has your number, chances are Asiana has it.
Feb 26, 2019, 11:49 pm
#10
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Seoul, Korea
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This is great news, I fly Asiana a bunch trans-pacific and was getting really tired of standing in ridiculous security lines at LAX or SFO because I would forget that this was the one airline left I flew that didn't have precheck
Apr 15, 2019, 2:40 pm
#12
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Left Coast
Posts: 862
When KE first added Pre-Check, they were replacing the passport number in their Web site field with the KTN for a time. Maybe Asiana was doing a similar thing? Haven't looked.
Apr 15, 2019, 2:57 pm
#13
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: NYC
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Assuming you entered your passport information in advance, wouldn't that show up when they scrub the passenger information against whatever databases are used for Secure Flight?
When KE first added Pre-Check, they were replacing the passport number in their Web site field with the KTN for a time. Maybe Asiana was doing a similar thing? Haven't looked.
When KE first added Pre-Check, they were replacing the passport number in their Web site field with the KTN for a time. Maybe Asiana was doing a similar thing? Haven't looked.
Apr 15, 2019, 3:59 pm
#14
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: New York
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I am flying from JFK next week. I made the reservation from my United account. My TSA number is already in my United account. I called Asiana to add it and they already had it from my United account.
Apr 15, 2019, 4:19 pm
#15
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: NYC
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And ANA had everything, IDs and known traveler number.