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May 19, 2014, 12:23 am
#586
Join Date: May 2006
Location: TUS/PDX
Programs: WN CP/A-List, AS MVPG75K
Posts: 5,798
You can go to one of the barcode decoders online. There's also an app for iPhones, but I never got that to work properly. I used to decode my AS and DL ones with an online pdf reader. I've stopped doing it since the TSA-PRE designation always means I get three beeps.
I didn't think there was a need to decode the barcodes after they started printing TSA-PRE on the BPs?
I didn't think there was a need to decode the barcodes after they started printing TSA-PRE on the BPs?
May 19, 2014, 9:25 am
#587
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: ORD
Programs: AA PLT
Posts: 2,781
But I'm curious. You are describing a behavior/situation that we are unfamiliar with. Are you saying that AA will print 'TSA PRE' on your boarding pass, but that sometimes that designation is not in the bar code even if it is printed on the boarding pass?
I don't think any of us are saying that WN doesn't have the same situation. I just don't think anyone here actually reads their bar codes.
As an aside, how do you read your bar code?
I don't think any of us are saying that WN doesn't have the same situation. I just don't think anyone here actually reads their bar codes.
As an aside, how do you read your bar code?
The Manatee Works scanner app is a popular one to read printed BPs (PDF417 barcode format), and I like to use NeoReader to read screenshots of my mobile BPs (Aztec format). On AA, the 104th character will indicate the number of beeps you'll receive (3 for LLL, 0 if not eligible) -- very easy to spot once you know where to look.
May 23, 2014, 10:36 am
#588
Join Date: May 2003
Location: VA
Programs: Marriott: LTP
Posts: 387
DH and I are both A-. Whenever we fly together, I go as his companion on a CP. I wish the PRE designation would be the same for both of us when we fly together.
Out of 6 flights:
1 flight--we both had PRE
1 flight--he did and I didn't
2 flights--I had PRE and he didn't.
2 flights--we both didn't have it.
I am 1 ahead of him so far. On his most recent flight on BS--he didn't get PRE, but I did.
Out of 6 flights:
1 flight--we both had PRE
1 flight--he did and I didn't
2 flights--I had PRE and he didn't.
2 flights--we both didn't have it.
I am 1 ahead of him so far. On his most recent flight on BS--he didn't get PRE, but I did.
May 23, 2014, 10:40 am
#589
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Northeast Kansas | Colorado Native
Programs: Amex Gold/Plat, UA *G, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott LT Gold, NEXUS, TSA Disparager Unobtanium
Posts: 21,603
DH and I are both A-. Whenever we fly together, I go as his companion on a CP. I wish the PRE designation would be the same for both of us when we fly together.
Out of 6 flights:
1 flight--we both had PRE
1 flight--he did and I didn't
2 flights--I had PRE and he didn't.
2 flights--we both didn't have it.
I am 1 ahead of him so far. On his most recent flight on BS--he didn't get PRE, but I did.
Out of 6 flights:
1 flight--we both had PRE
1 flight--he did and I didn't
2 flights--I had PRE and he didn't.
2 flights--we both didn't have it.
I am 1 ahead of him so far. On his most recent flight on BS--he didn't get PRE, but I did.
To get better odds at receiving it on every flight, sign up for the PreCheck program through TSA or GE/NEXUS/SENTRI.
May 23, 2014, 3:37 pm
#590
Join Date: May 2003
Location: VA
Programs: Marriott: LTP
Posts: 387
If the algorithm accounted for folks flying together, then it would make sense to me. Having one member of the party (from the same household) deemed "trustworthy" and the other one not doesn't make any rational sense. Or, one person deemed "trustworthy" 50% of the time. (Or, 33% of the time). It really should be an all or nothing type situation.
May 23, 2014, 8:28 pm
#592
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 5,813
If TSA were interested in getting a larger number of people through Pre, they would take the information that they have collected through their own Secure Flight database and figure out for the last 20 years I have flown between a few locations and been cleared by more than one Federal Agency. The overwhelming stupidity of the bureaucratic collective never ceases to amaze me.