Pre-Check is starting! Login and look for Opt-in box (was: coming later this year)
#301
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: HOU via MSY
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#302
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 5,813
That list is not up to date. It shows no Southwest anywhere and it doesn't show pre-check at MSY Concourse B, which went active this morning. I was through there and a TSA agent confirmed pre-check just started today.
#303
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 5,813
the Southwst pre-check page says:
I thought the Airline invited people to participate, not TSA sifting through the entire RR member list.
U.S Citizens who are Rapid Rewards Members that the TSA deems eligible and opt-in to participate in the program
#304
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Minneapolis, originally from Cincinnati
Programs: Diamond with Delta, Hyatt and Hilton. 2 MM and Plat with America (thank you citi:))
Posts: 2,345
Download an app (I use Qrafter which is free) and decode the barcode on the BP. You get a string of numbers and characters. I assume WN's BP's will be like Delta or American and if the last number is 3 that BP is eligible for Precheck and if it's a one you aren't.
#305
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Minneapolis, originally from Cincinnati
Programs: Diamond with Delta, Hyatt and Hilton. 2 MM and Plat with America (thank you citi:))
Posts: 2,345
Perhaps I'm confused... unless something has changed since Sunday, Southwest uses *ALL* of the C Gates at LAS (and a chunk of the B gates as well).
I'm thinking this reference is to the D & (older) C checkpoint that is "upstairs" on what is essentially the mezzanine above the south end of baggage claim. Access from the ticket counters is up the escalators that are more-or-less in the center of the ticket counter/check-in area, then a long walk to the east (you're actually crossing the road below) followed by a right-turn and a long walk to the south (the baggage claim area is below and on your left at this point).
Somebody somewhere in another thread had commented that the TSA clerks often have the chain/gates closed-off and have to manually allow people thru to access the C gates after clearing this Checkpoint.
Access to the other/newer Checkpoint for the C (and A/B) gates is way down at the far south end of the Southwest ticket counters (to your left as you face the counters) and up a shorter escalator. This is where the elite line/employee line is on the left (essentially at the top of the escalators) and I noticed the clerks had their fancy new podium-attached scanners (although not in-use Sunday).
I'm thinking this reference is to the D & (older) C checkpoint that is "upstairs" on what is essentially the mezzanine above the south end of baggage claim. Access from the ticket counters is up the escalators that are more-or-less in the center of the ticket counter/check-in area, then a long walk to the east (you're actually crossing the road below) followed by a right-turn and a long walk to the south (the baggage claim area is below and on your left at this point).
Somebody somewhere in another thread had commented that the TSA clerks often have the chain/gates closed-off and have to manually allow people thru to access the C gates after clearing this Checkpoint.
Access to the other/newer Checkpoint for the C (and A/B) gates is way down at the far south end of the Southwest ticket counters (to your left as you face the counters) and up a shorter escalator. This is where the elite line/employee line is on the left (essentially at the top of the escalators) and I noticed the clerks had their fancy new podium-attached scanners (although not in-use Sunday).
It's been a while since I have flown out of LAS on AA, but last time I did it was the same security entrance as Delta and I thought it was the C gates.
I was thinking southwest used the A/B gates.
#306
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: BOS/ORH
Programs: AS 75K
Posts: 18,323
just becasue you are chosen to opt-in does not necessarily mean you will get pre. No one can tell you if you have been accepted. You also may not get Pre every time as its a flight by by flight basis (i think its actually trip by trip) without a KTN/TTN.
Airline may determine who to allow to check the box to share info with TSA. Then TSA decides by whatever info WN sends to make the decision. I'm actually surprised opt-in is even being done. The word on the street is opt-in via airlines is going away when the $85 pay for pre/Global Entry light goes online. I also heard that Hawaiian airlines is doing the TTN/KTN field and no opt-in.
I dont think adding and removing the RR number will do anything. Its the secure flight info that is the key and RR number is not submitted to TSA
I dont think adding and removing the RR number will do anything. Its the secure flight info that is the key and RR number is not submitted to TSA
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#307
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: USA
Programs: AC SE100K, F9 100k, NK Gold, UA *S, Hyatt Glob, Bonvoy Titanium
Posts: 5,158
to those who have Pre from another airline:
do you get the 3 beeps even on last minute bookings?
I have some trips this weekend but they were booked 2-3 months ago. One is business select, so I'd consider cancelling and rebooking. However, I'm wondering if only trips made a minimum of 'x' days/hours ahead of time get sent to the TSA for Pre.
The TSA should give out their own prepaid invites for Pre: to the people like me who opt out twice a week and waste their time with 'no alerts found' continuously.
do you get the 3 beeps even on last minute bookings?
I have some trips this weekend but they were booked 2-3 months ago. One is business select, so I'd consider cancelling and rebooking. However, I'm wondering if only trips made a minimum of 'x' days/hours ahead of time get sent to the TSA for Pre.
The TSA should give out their own prepaid invites for Pre: to the people like me who opt out twice a week and waste their time with 'no alerts found' continuously.
#308
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: BOS/ORH
Programs: AS 75K
Posts: 18,323
to those who have Pre from another airline:
do you get the 3 beeps even on last minute bookings?
I have some trips this weekend but they were booked 2-3 months ago. One is business select, so I'd consider cancelling and rebooking. However, I'm wondering if only trips made a minimum of 'x' days/hours ahead of time get sent to the TSA for Pre.
The TSA should give out their own prepaid invites for Pre: to the people like me who opt out twice a week and waste their time with 'no alerts found' continuously.
do you get the 3 beeps even on last minute bookings?
I have some trips this weekend but they were booked 2-3 months ago. One is business select, so I'd consider cancelling and rebooking. However, I'm wondering if only trips made a minimum of 'x' days/hours ahead of time get sent to the TSA for Pre.
The TSA should give out their own prepaid invites for Pre: to the people like me who opt out twice a week and waste their time with 'no alerts found' continuously.
#309
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SNA
Programs: Bonvoy LTTE/AMB, AmEx Plat, National EE, WN A-List, CLEAR+, Covid-19
Posts: 4,956
Entered my GOES number at least a year ago, got the Pre-Check E-mail today, logged in and Opted-In. My GOES number was now listed in the "Redress Number" field (as that's what the form called that field when I'd entered it back then) so I'd re-entered it into the "Trusted Traveler" field- but it wouldn't let me remove the number from the "Redress" box, so it's in both places now. Guess it can't hurt.
I'm essentially done with weekly travel since July, but I've got ~360K RRs to burn thru so I guess this'll help (esp. since I'll be losing AL+ end of 2014).
I'm essentially done with weekly travel since July, but I've got ~360K RRs to burn thru so I guess this'll help (esp. since I'll be losing AL+ end of 2014).
#310
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: SNA
Programs: Bonvoy LTTE/AMB, AmEx Plat, National EE, WN A-List, CLEAR+, Covid-19
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#311
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: SJC, Northern Cal.
Programs: SWA RR BIS 6.2M, A+'20, CP'20, AA, UA Gold, Hertz PC, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 909
I said yes to both, so that must make some of us double special? :-)
#312
Join Date: Nov 2013
Posts: 5
How to do it
If you made your Res PRIOR to Opting-In OR PRIOR to entering your Know Taveler Number in your profile, OR was not available on that Res Page, it won't be on that Res and therefore no PreCheck.
Solution, call Res # at SW, and the nice ladies will manually add it to all your PRIOR Reservations. Just did it. Future Res will be automatic of course if logged in..
Solution, call Res # at SW, and the nice ladies will manually add it to all your PRIOR Reservations. Just did it. Future Res will be automatic of course if logged in..
#313
Join Date: Oct 2001
Programs: LTP, PP
Posts: 8,691
OMG, this just sounds like a huge cluster F waiting to happen on all sides of the IT continuum.
As long as one can cut the line using AL+ and/or BS, its there really any tangible time saving benefit to this run-a-round?
As long as one can cut the line using AL+ and/or BS, its there really any tangible time saving benefit to this run-a-round?
#314
Moderator: Southwest Airlines, Capital One
Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: California
Programs: WN Companion Pass, A-list preferred, Hyatt Globalist; United Club Lietime (sic) Member
Posts: 21,587
If you made your Res PRIOR to Opting-In OR PRIOR to entering your Known Traveler Number in your profile, OR was not available on that Res Page, it won't be on that Res and therefore no PreCheck.
Solution, call Res # at SW, and the nice ladies will manually add it to all your PRIOR Reservations. Just did it. Future Res will be automatic of course if logged in..
Solution, call Res # at SW, and the nice ladies will manually add it to all your PRIOR Reservations. Just did it. Future Res will be automatic of course if logged in..
I presume that TSA gives it to SWA when you are approved, but not directly to you. Should we just make a dummy reservation and see whether the KTN field is pre-populated?
#315