In the discussion of long TSA Security Lines I find it interesting that TSA claims "Managed Inclusion" has ended but are using Canines to move people to expedited screening. Also note how TSA is pushing hard for people to pony up their $85 per head to sign up for Pre Check.

Apparently Pre Check Expedited Screening is TSA's answer to long security lines, not modifying wasteful time consuming procedures and processes that offer little security benefit.

I was unaware of the Automatic TSA Pre Check Assessments but have personally benefited from this selection method several times. It is this method that I believe TSA should use for the majority of Expedited Screening assignments. I also think that there is sufficient information available to TSA that a persons Risk Level can be determined when a ticket is purchased.


http://www.gao.gov/assets/680/677714.pdf

However, we have yet to hear of anyone being moved to "expedited screening" after being sniffed.

Flew out of SEA this afternoon, got pre on my boarding pass. I have not signed up for it. Glad to get it because the lines were long everywhere else. They did have poochies sniffing pre and non pre alike though.

Were the dogs being used in a manner that expedited the screening process for those people sniffed?

Not that I could tell. They were in a roped off area inside the checkpoint entrance. Oh, and they did have a noisy fat troll literally shrieking at everyone to keep moving and don't pet the pooch. Extremely offensive. Go get the Brits to teach you how to do this politely.

I feel for that poor dog's ears.

+1.

At LHR, the screeners bark much like the TSA. The days of the UK being a good example of how to treat passengers at screening checkpoints are sort of gone if using the most famous British airport as an example.

On AskTSA, there is a tweet from a woman wondering why her 13 yr. old daughter got PreCheck and she didn't. She, of course, got a non-answer from TSA, alluding to pre-flight assessment.

Which makes me ask: what kind of a background check can be done on a 13 year old child in the first place? If the child committed some kind of a crime, there would be no record of it as juvenile records are normally sealed.

A child can accompany a parent who has Pre, shouldn't the reverse be true?

This varies IME. I had a polite yet firm screener at T2 recently, despite my being somewhat jetlagged-grumpy about confiscation of an unopened mini-wine-bottle from my previous flight (the UK is the only place that forces everyone into transfer security, I was coming from Canada on this occasion).

I do have much worse memories of T5 consistently being bad, more so in transfer security. The budget airports (stansted, luton and the like) are also quite noisy and grumpy.

I do find ZRH rather polite (it's done by the local police, who also conduct border processing). They will calmly double-check that you've removed your laptop, and will give you an assessment of shoes/belts if requested (I've flown in hiking boots before, plus my belt has issues in the WTMD). They'll even explain that you can take your swiss-army knife through, but that you should probably check it when returning since other countries might not permit it in carry-ons.

Myself (have GE) and friend (nothing - not even FF status) traveling on same PNR. He received PreCheck on both the outbound and return with me.

So managed inclusion is still alive.

If Pre was printed on the ticket that is Automated Pre Check Risk Assessment not Managed Inclusion.

It might not be Managed Inclusion according to the world of the TSA but it is managed inclusion nonetheless. TSA is just going about it in a different way to satisfy their critics.

If we use TSA's tortured definitions it's not Managed Inclusion. The destinction is only important when trying to figure out what flavor of TSA security is in play today.