TSA Pre Check: Help Me Understand How This Happened...

[steveroberts]

Friends,

I'm a once-a-year round-trip domestic flyer.

This weekend, when using tickets for a corporate event in Orlando where my air travel was booked by the corporation's choice of travel agent, something strange happened...

My tickets were marked "TSA Pre Check." Same thing happened on the way home from Orlando.

I was grateful to skip the invasive search and the LONG lines in Orlando, but since I've never applied or paid for Pre Check, I'm curious as to how and why I received this status.

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

SR

[Cary]

They have started giving it out to random passengers on an occasional basis.

More accurately, it's referred to at the TSA as RI or "Random Inclusion". In effect, you hit the security lottery.

[OWC Jamie]

There is a reason why there is only one letter difference between TSA and NSA.
Shortly after your tickets were purchased Your airline submitted your name fto various government services and they all vetted you with ( any and all government knowledge bases ) for pre-flight and apparently you are a dull, boring non-felonious, low-risk traveller.

A TSA agent can also at his/her discretion discreetly choose you for "random inclusion" for the Pre check lane(s) right there while you are waiting in line.
Smile pretty. Sometimes attitude gets you stuff™
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[Speedy]

About two thirds of the time we get the Pre Check. I guess we look too old to be bombers.

[OWC Jamie]

Speedy wrote:
About two thirds of the time we get the Pre Check. I guess we look too old to be bombers.

it's discriminatory profiling. Next time exrecise your civic duty and protest in front of the airline terminal.

[Speedy]

billb wrote: Next time exrecise your civic duty and protest in front of the airline terminal.

We usually fly in the winter so this would be out of the question.

[testcase]

"apparently you are a dull, boring non-felonious, low-risk traveller"


I'm sure billb means that in the nicest possible way....... :wink:

[OWC Jamie]

testcase wrote:
"apparently you are a dull, boring non-felonious, low-risk traveller"


I'm sure billb means that in the nicest possible way....... :wink:

I used to get precheck for free.
Then I started putting jalapenos and habaneros in my scrambled eggs.
Having to take my shoes off is worth it though.

[GGD]

There was another discussion of it earlier this year.

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1976293

I suspect that they're giving a lot more "random" access this summer, given the complaints of long TSA lines and firing of the guy in charge because of that. TSA had expected a lot more people to sign up for the PreCheck program.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...ouse-panel

On the opposite end of this, I have paid PreCheck, and on an earlier trip this year I got "randomly selected" for additional screening in both directions on the same trip. It was in the PreCheck line after going through the metal detector. They made me go through the full body scanner and hand inspected my carry-on luggage. They also made me wait quite a bit for the one person who does this screening.

[MrNoBody]

billb wrote:
There is a reason why there is only one letter difference between TSA and NSA.
...

...and there is also only one letter difference between TSA and SSA.
Both are big, money wasting repositories of over-paid slackers who don't have a clue.