TSA Precheck [BA participation]
#361
Join Date: Jan 2010
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#362
Join Date: Oct 2017
Programs: BA Bronze, Marriott LTP
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I managed to get my corporate travel agent Egencia to add my KTN to my forthcoming trip to San Diego on BA. They seemed to be able to add it and wanted the issue date as well as the number so hoping TSA Pre will appear when I return on the 20th May.
#363
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Glasgow, UK
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They do indeed a 3 / 3 hit rate for me so far.
The app needs an update as the QR code / BP version I believe isnt high enough to support the encrypted string that the TSA pre information needs. I believe this update will be imminent. as the paper BPs always have the latest version.
Interestingly this is one of the reasons why if you use one type of BP at security / conformance and then try the other at the gate why it wont work and it's due to different BP revisions and string data between the two
TL|DR wait for an app update or get a paper BP
#364
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#365
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Hampshire, UK
Programs: BA Gold, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 225
Checking in for a LHR-MSY tomorrow. App presents this at check-in.
I’ll be heading back from Chicago on Monday, will be interesting to see if any further progress has been made.
#366
Moderator, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges, and Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Feb 2010
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Thanks for the screen shot (which proves that BA knows they will have to do some more work on the App). If you got your boarding pass you won't be SSSS. But that may be the next thing to find out, whether leaving LHR on BA and with Global Entry, are you spared SSSS?
#368
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 3,190
Probably not in the way we would have hoped, but it sounds like it is all coming together. The key will be being able to enter you KTN without having to involve a BA human. (And to answer the question immediately above, no - no way to enter KTN via website or app, yet, AFAIK.)
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#370
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: The Hague/London
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, BA LTG, Hilton Diamond, FB Platinum, EK Gold
Posts: 362
Ok, at JFK (could not use the kiosks as all busy) went to get a paper boarding pass. Checkin lady said there was no way they could add KTN (is coming soon she said). Prints the boarding pass and lo and behold it says TSA pre, so I guess adding it to the AA booking helped. Pointing that out she says ‘yeah, but it doesn’t work yet’. Waived it at the security guard and indeed got the TSA pre light treatment. Shoes can stay on, rest comes out.
So, it sort of works, now we just need a TSA pre lane at T7.
So, it sort of works, now we just need a TSA pre lane at T7.
#372
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Hampshire, UK
Programs: BA Gold, Hyatt Globalist
Posts: 225
So to update this, ended up getting a paper BP due to doing an AUP on check in. (£440 WTP-CW) I asked about TSA Pre and if they'd be able to enter my known traveller number into the booking whilst in the first wing. No knowledge with the check in staff member serving me on how to do it or that it was possible.
Very interestingly I'm assuming due to the AA segment on the booking my KTN is in there... On the paper BP low and behold check the top! Not sure what good it'd do on the LHR-MSY segment
#373
Join Date: Feb 2015
Programs: BA Gold, LH SEN
Posts: 49
I can confirm TSA PRE for SFO. Hadn’t been aware of BA (finally) participating, and was surprised when the check-in agent at the First check-in proactively asked if I had a KTN. He entered it and printed my boarding with TSA PRE on it. Great news!
#374
Join Date: Jan 2010
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#375
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: DXB
Programs: BA Gold, EK Silver
Posts: 246
Thanks for the screen shot (which proves that BA knows they will have to do some more work on the App). If you got your boarding pass you won't be SSSS. But that may be the next thing to find out, whether leaving LHR on BA and with Global Entry, are you spared SSSS?
Just to confirm, at this point, the only way to enter our KTN is by calling BA or having it entered at airport check in?