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My parents always get it - I think age definitely plays some sort of role.
Negative. I am far from 60 and don't have children but I get PreCheck entry (never applied). But only with American. I am mileage member of United and Delta but not with OneWorld so I thought American's trying to get me fly with them more!
Negative. I am far from 60 and don't have children but I get PreCheck entry (never applied). But only with American. I am mileage member of United and Delta but not with OneWorld so I thought American's trying to get me fly with them more!
Yeah I don't know. My parents don't fly frequently, I'm sure there's many factors.
Sign up soon! They are cutting back on the free precheck.
I just used it for the first time last weekend and it was the greatest. The regular line wasn't that long, but it was lovely not to have to remove all that stuff and put it back on after.
Pay $20 more and get Global Entry. Gives you Precheck too and the customs line is sooooooo much faster. Works out to $20/yr.
Good advice. The only downside to GE is getting through the interview. The guy before me in interviews at Dulles was rejected because he had a DUI on his record from when he was a teenager. He was a forty-something airline pilot. Good enough for the FAA to entrust ~200 lives to him several times a day, but apparently not good enough in the eyes of TSA. Go figure.
If you travel to the UK often, their counterpart to GE is Registered Traveller. I'm in that, too.
If you fly frequently, it's totally worth it. I fly about twice a month and it's the best $80 I've ever spent. As others have said, lines at RDU aren't usually the issue-it's other airports.
I am pretty sure airline status + age (both old and young) play a role in the "random" assignment of people who haven't signed up to the precheck line.
I have it, and love it. $85.00 for 5 years of skipping lines and not taking your shoes off. Got fingerprinted and was approved in a week. VERY worth it no matter how many times you fly.
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Originally Posted by Sardonicusius
I am wondering about the usefulness, and where in the RDU area the post-application interview (if any) is conducted and how it is scheduled.
The scheduling part is about how much choice if any an applicant has over choosing the time and date, nad, if there are options, location in this area.
I find precheck worth the money and the small amount of face time involved. It took me a few weeks from application to number issuance. SO completed the process recently; it was even quicker for him. He was able to schedule an interview within days of applying.
Also, kids automatically receive precheck if booked on your ticket. My LO kept asking me why people wanted to stand in the long line. :-)
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