manneca

I have had GE since 2012 and am 100% for pre check. Unless I'm flying UA I always double check to make sure my trusted traveler number is in my profile or connected with my ticket. I have been randomly selected to be rescreened after going through pre check.

BSBD

Since paying for it, I have only missed it once, but it didn't matter because that particular day TSA at BHM shut down any form of PreCheck for everyone, regardless of whether you had it on your BP.

Tizzette

Anybody else ever had a Pre Check boarding pass that wouldn't scan and get shuttled to the regular line?

TIGA31328

That it wouldn't scan shouldn't put you in another line and if it did you should get put at the front of it. I have never had my pass not scan.

-Patrick

TIGA31328

Since I became GE I have had Pre on my boarding passes every time. I have heard from some other travelers that they have not had it about 1 in 10 itineraries(roundtrip).

-Patrick

malexander131

Thanks for the insight. I bought a last-minute ticket (decided to take an extra day in LA to go to the beach) so I'm assuming I probably hit some random rule that excluded me this time, but good to know it's probably just a fluke.

I did ask at the AA counter in SFO and the agent tried reprinting my BP to no avail. Then again, he also didn't know you could now apply and pay for access to Pre-Check, so I'm not putting money on him knowing what he was doing...

Randyk47

Not sure what the last minute tripwire is but there supposedly is a timeframe that is too close to the flight for PreCheck.

Tizzette

I did get shuttled to the front of the other line. I have GE and the PreCheck had worked on my outbound flight but on the reentry from Europe, no. It was an airline issued boarding pass. The agent asked if I had another version of the boarding pass to try. I guess I could start downloading to my phone as backup.

BSBD

I think this is not correct. This past week as I was approaching the document check stand (I think it was at ATL), there was an obviously new TSA doc checker being coached by a TSA trainer/supervisor. The supervisor was telling the newbie that if the BP doesn't scan as PreCheck, the pax is not PreCheck, EVEN IF THE BP SAYS PreCheck ON IT (emphasis by TSA trainer/supervisor).

gracall

I have GE. This is a bit different from OP. I went through PreCheck in LAX once, but was "randomly searched" afterwards.

CKDGM

Since getting NEXUS in 2012, I have never not had Pre on an eligible itinerary at a checkpoint that offered it. (Before getting NEXUS I got it fairly regularly on DL via status.)

In several of those cases (DL BOS-YYZ, DL out of MDW, UA out of EGE) I would now get it because either the restrictions have eased (the YYZ trip was before international itineraries were eligible) or because the airports now have Pre (EGE had Pre-light then). In others (PD BOS-YTZ, VS BOS-LHR, 9K BOS-ACK-BOS) the airlines are still not participating.

GUWonder

As a US-born GE member (with plenty of cleared FBI background checks), I have a lower percentage of check-ins giving me PreCheck LLL boarding passes than some of my foreign-born relatives who have never paid into DHS membership programs and never even been elite with the US airlines' loyalty programs. [I find it all rather amusing that some of those foreign-born relatives have 100% LLL in recent years, particularly given some of these foreign-born relatives are the immediate relatives of people listed in CIA files for having opposed or stalled US interests.] In my case, it's largely because doing enough one-way, non-US-originating trips bought on the day of travel for mixed travel parties isn't always free of consequence.

Travisaurus

GE for nearly two years, traveling 3-4x/month....100% pre-check success.

Travis

(yay, my first post)

14940674

Welcome to FlyerTalk.

cestmoi123

Essentially 100%. Only missed once that I can recall in the last couple of years, was a ticket purchased two hours before the flight, and on Southwest, where I don't even have a Rapid Rewards account. I believe my TA put the KTN into the res, but who knows.