Posted: 7/5/2016 8:52:04 AM EDT
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Fo or no fo? Background: I travel for work a lot. Like >200 days in hotels last year a lot. Pre-check could save me time and hassle in airports, but what, if any are the potential downsides? |
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Here if you get to the airport early they run everyone through the same line.
Then someone yells at you for either not taking your laptop out of the bag or leaving it in the bag. 
When I first got it made things a lot faster. These days I'm not seeing much difference. |
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Fo or no fo? Background: I travel for work a lot. Like >200 days in hotels last year a lot. Pre-check could save me time and hassle in airports, but what, if any are the potential downsides? How do you not have it already? Over 200 nights a year w/o Pre-check? Do Global Entry. It includes Pre-check. Eta: beat! |
I love it. The only time you get into trouble is when you go through an airport that doesn't have prechek. When I left Valdosta, GA last week it was a total cluster because half the people were precheck and no one removed anything. Only one security line. Only two gates and about 30 people in total on the flight so it wasn't too bad though.  . Anytime you get to hear A-10's doing gun runs while in a meeting is a pretty good day regardless of what DHS throws at you. 
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| I applied a month ago and still haven't heard anything back from them. My login still says "my security threat assessment is currently underway". I've been in LE for 15 years, have a recently renewed CCW, etc...so does it always take this long to get their blessing? Website says to call em after a month if I don't hear anything...sorry for the thread derail OP |
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Quoted: I had it last time I traveled on business. My company must have put in for it and not told me. Then I traveled for personal reasons a couple of weeks later and I was in the cattle line with all the regular folk. Weird. I don't know what kicks it off. Sometimes you'll get it on your ticket. Your company can't sign you up. |
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I had it last time I traveled on business. My company must have put in for it and not told me. Then I traveled for personal reasons a couple of weeks later and I was in the cattle line with all the regular folk. Weird. I don't know what kicks it off. You have to go visit the office and get fingerprinted. When they first started this they would randomly run folks in the regular line through PreChek to expose people to it. |
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Global Entry is worth it. Depending on your airport, the wait can be months to get an interview. Pick the first available appt. and check back multiple times a day for cancellations. I just did this for my wife and got her applied, conditional approval then the interview/final all within 3 weeks. Calendar otherwise indicated October as first interview appts.
ETA- global entry is $100 non-refundable (i.e. if you visited the snack bar and got rejected, you don't get your $ back) |
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Global Entry is worth it. Depending on your airport, the wait can be months to get an interview. Pick the first available appt. and check back multiple times a day for cancellations. I just did this for my wife and got her applied, conditional approval then the interview/final all within 3 weeks. Calendar otherwise indicated October as first interview appts. ETA- global entry is $100 non-refundable (i.e. if you visited the snack bar and got rejected, you don't get your $ back) Yeah, it took me 3 months to get an interview and I had to drive a few hours to an airport that could do it. Still worth it. |
| I don't normally travel over seas so I really just need to take the time to get Pre-Check. I almost never get into the airport late enough that they are open or early enough on the way home to stop in. Kind of a pain in the ass. This Friday will be the first time in months that I will be in early enough if I can remember to stop. |
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Quoted: I don't normally travel over seas so I really just need to take the time to get Pre-Check. I almost never get into the airport late enough that they are open or early enough on the way home to stop in. Kind of a pain in the ass. This Friday will be the first time in months that I will be in early enough if I can remember to stop. It didn't take long to do precheck and there were multiple local options for me. Mine was in the back of an H&R block in the ghetto lol. |
| I did it a while back at a kiosk in Palm beach airport. Took all of 10 minutes and I got approved in a few weeks. Last week me and a coworker both flew out of Denver on Saturday. Took him 25 minutes to get through TSA. Took me 4 minutes. He is signing up this week. If you travel the airlines much it is well worth it. Plus you don't have to take your shoes off and computerized crap out of your bags. |
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You have to go visit the office and get fingerprinted. When they first started this they would randomly run folks in the regular line through PreChek to expose people to it. Quoted:
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I had it last time I traveled on business. My company must have put in for it and not told me. Then I traveled for personal reasons a couple of weeks later and I was in the cattle line with all the regular folk. Weird. I don't know what kicks it off. You have to go visit the office and get fingerprinted. When they first started this they would randomly run folks in the regular line through PreChek to expose people to it. My tickets out and back in April or May had me indicated as "Pre-screened" and so did the tickets of the two people I was flying with. None of us realized it until TSA told us what line to get in. None of us had applied for it or been fingerprinted. I dunno. We figured it was because our company did something. |
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If you have a place close by Global Entry would be the way to go or even Nexus. Note that the wait time for Global entry appointments can be *stiff*. I didn't notice in your message, but if you only travel domestically Nexus or Global Entry would be a waste of time / money. Pre-Check for domestic travel is a must though! It makes life so much nicer at the airport. I travel approximately 150 to 200 days a year domestically and internationally. |
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Yeah, it took me 3 months to get an interview and I had to drive a few hours to an airport that could do it. Still worth it. Quoted:
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Global Entry is worth it. Depending on your airport, the wait can be months to get an interview. Pick the first available appt. and check back multiple times a day for cancellations. I just did this for my wife and got her applied, conditional approval then the interview/final all within 3 weeks. Calendar otherwise indicated October as first interview appts. ETA- global entry is $100 non-refundable (i.e. if you visited the snack bar and got rejected, you don't get your $ back) Yeah, it took me 3 months to get an interview and I had to drive a few hours to an airport that could do it. Still worth it. Did you go to Nashville for it? Looks like that is the closest one. |
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I had it last time I traveled on business. My company must have put in for it and not told me. Then I traveled for personal reasons a couple of weeks later and I was in the cattle line with all the regular folk. Weird. I don't know what kicks it off. You have to put your 'known traveler number' in when you purchase your tickets. If you still have a ticket from the company travel, it should be printed on the boarding pass. Mike |
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Fo or no fo? Background: I travel for work a lot. Like >200 days in hotels last year a lot. Pre-check could save me time and hassle in airports, but what, if any are the potential downsides? I spend 1/3 the year outside the US. Work bought me pre check and global entry. One of those is typically honored at most airports. Has saved me much hassle. Havent seen any downside yet. |
| We have been able to buy our tickets the last 2 years 1-6 months in advance and when we print boarding passes the pre-check is already on there. It seems that if you get the tickets far enough in advance it is automatically put on there. If I traveled as much as you do is go for it. I can't think of any downside. Your probably on a few lists anyways so what's one more? |
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You have to put your 'known traveler number' in when you purchase your tickets. If you still have a ticket from the company travel, it should be printed on the boarding pass. Mike Quoted:
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I had it last time I traveled on business. My company must have put in for it and not told me. Then I traveled for personal reasons a couple of weeks later and I was in the cattle line with all the regular folk. Weird. I don't know what kicks it off. You have to put your 'known traveler number' in when you purchase your tickets. If you still have a ticket from the company travel, it should be printed on the boarding pass. Mike Thanks. I think I still have a copy. |
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Did you go to Nashville for it? Looks like that is the closest one. Quoted:
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Global Entry is worth it. Depending on your airport, the wait can be months to get an interview. Pick the first available appt. and check back multiple times a day for cancellations. I just did this for my wife and got her applied, conditional approval then the interview/final all within 3 weeks. Calendar otherwise indicated October as first interview appts. ETA- global entry is $100 non-refundable (i.e. if you visited the snack bar and got rejected, you don't get your $ back) Yeah, it took me 3 months to get an interview and I had to drive a few hours to an airport that could do it. Still worth it. Did you go to Nashville for it? Looks like that is the closest one. Yes. Its in a separate building so parking was easy. Waited in the hallway for maybe 20 minutes. Half the names they called out weren't there so I got in pretty quick. |
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Thanks. I think I still have a copy. Quoted:
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I had it last time I traveled on business. My company must have put in for it and not told me. Then I traveled for personal reasons a couple of weeks later and I was in the cattle line with all the regular folk. Weird. I don't know what kicks it off. You have to put your 'known traveler number' in when you purchase your tickets. If you still have a ticket from the company travel, it should be printed on the boarding pass. Mike Thanks. I think I still have a copy. Put your number in with your membership info for all the airlines you typically fly. That way it's automatic. |
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If you fly that much, you should have elite status of some sort on your usual airline, and I get sponsored for pre-check for free by the airline as an elite benefit. Unless your company specifically snakes your FF miles to the corporate account for all business travel, or your elite program just sucks?
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