tarheelnj

I asked the same question. The process at the Pre-Check lane is still more than in many countries when flying back to the US. I transited through HKG last week and kept my shoes on and 1 oz bag & laptop in my bag. Only similarity was confiscating the bottle of water.

(According to the agent), the governement agreements specify the more intrusive screening, and those would need to be changed. Maybe (my guess) it has something to do with the US being one of the few countries that mixes its outbound domestic and international departures?

FriendlySkies

A couple reports of this in the AA forum. Believe one mentioned that the OP was flying LAX-JFK (redeye), connecting to an international flight on another OW carrier the following morning. Pre-Check worked for them at LAX.

Thanks for the info. ^

Pre-Check is more than most countries? How so? The only thing that you need to remove for Pre-Check is metal from your pockets. Laptop & everything stays in the bag.

chrisdeaner

Great info! CLEAR + Pre-Check = head explode


Also - I'm glad they're setting up pre-pre-check scanners so people can skip the "regular" elite BP line if they're pre-check and just zoom to the front. They need something like this at SEA for peak hours. Last time there was a significant line they had a TSA agent walking up the line, taking people's BPs or phones, scanning them and pulling pre-checks out. I was definitely happy they were doing this but it was very inefficient!

SEA1K4EVR

After reading your posts about not being PreCheck eligible when on travel agency tickets I was curious about my upcoming business travel issued by my company's travel agency HRG.

I booked the ticket using Concur and HRG ticketed it a few weeks ago. My Global Entry card has my middle name on it. I have put my PASSID number in my Concur profile however I do not use my middle name on any of my tickets (booked either through HRG or when I book personal travel at United.com), and so when the UA reservation was created by HRG my Secure Flight info at United.com did not have my PASSID number or my middle name. I added my middle name and PASSID number myself at United.com right after HRG ticketed the reservation. Today when I checked in for my flight tomorrow I scanned the bar code on my BP and sure enough I'm PreCheck eligible.

I take it from your post that you asked AMEX to alter the name on the ticket... but really what you should try is to do it yourself at United.com.. you will probably have success so long as AMEX at least has your first/last names spelled correctly. Having a middle name on the actual ticket is not necessary...only in the Secure Flight info.

Ari

I think iluv posted that he is not a GE member. Maybe I am mistaken, but I think I saw that.

northsideguy

Just flew out of Orlando on Saturday, and TSA Supervisor said that Pre-Check is going to be on the B Side at MCO this week. Hope this is true as MCO B Side is one of the worse airports to go through. I'm flying back this week and will report if the rumors are true. Safe Travels!

iluv2fly

This is correct.

flavorflav

I noted this elsewhere, but MCO (Orlando) now has an elite line on the UA/US/AA side of the airport (gates 1-59) that is allegedly a temporary elite line until Pre-Check comes to that side.

Recall that PreCheck is running on the Gates 60-129 side, which serves DL, WN and other non-Star Alliance airlines. PreCheck is allegedly coming to the UA/US/AA side in November, but until then UA elites were having to suffer in the same old genpop line. No longer. The elite line is well-signed and at the far right end of the Gates 1-59 screening area. It may have supplanted the TSA expert traveler line.

The claim that the elite line is a temporary measure came from the CLEAR attendant. Unclear what, if any, cooperation there will be at MCO between CLEAR and Pre-Check.

But, for now, UA flyers have access to an elite security line at MCO. PreCheck allegedly coming soon.

UA-NYC

With the amount you fly?

CDKing

I would have asked to see the supervisor. Was it three quick beeps or three slow beeps?

flavorflav

Point of clarification: At MCO there is no Terminal A checkpoint or Terminal B checkpoint. Half of Terminal A goes to the Gates 1-59 checkpoint and the other half of terminal B goes to the Gates 60-129 checkpoint. Similarly, half of Terminal B goes to the Gates 1-59 checkpoint while the other half of Terminal B goes to the Gates 60-129 checkpoint.

In addition, each checkpoint has a left half and a right half - neither of which is at all obvious to flyers. For example, a UA flyer would follow the signs from the UA ticket counter at the end of Terminal A to the Gates 1-59 checkpoint. The flyer might find a big line and get in it, since there are no visible alternatives. But what isn't obvious is that the flyer is merely in the "left half" of the Gates 1-59 checkpoint and there is a mirror image "right half" just a few feet away. That line might have no one in it, and it feeds into the same overall checkpoint and spits people out in the same spot.

It can be very confusing when discussing one checkpoint vs. the other checkpoint, and it took me about a year of regular flying out of MCO (as well as picking up inbound pax on a variety of airlines) to really figure it out.

What I think the OP meant to say is that a TSA supervisor told him that Pre-Check is coming to the Gates 1-59 checkpoint at MCO this week. (PreCheck is already operating at the Gates 60-129 checkpoint.) I, too, will be back through there this weekend and will report in also.

FriendlySkies

+1

Time to claim that GS GE credit. Or Amex?

Ari

I'm sure he has his reasons.

Anyway, how his middle name appears on the reservation has nothing to do with nothing in his case. I guess that certain TA-issued tickets don't work for PreCheck for those who qualify through flight activity alone-- that is, those who don't have a TT membership.

Ari

Finally. ^^^

FriendlySkies

Wow, Just WOW! MCO, the airport that has always had a grudge against elite lines... Can't wait to see this in action