[AnotherUnixGeek]

To its credit, TSA’s Pre-Check program, in which passengers apply to be vetted before flying and then are allowed expedited screening without all the dehumanizing antics of going through non-Pre-Check screening, is a significant step in the right direction.

After years of travel, going through the whole process of taking off my belt and shoes and staggering away from the security gate in my socks with my carry on bag in one hand, trying to keep my pants up with the other, I went ahead and enrolled in the Pre-Check program. I don't know if Pre-Check is really a step in the right direction or just a way to pay the government money to avoid their security theater, but at least air travel is now fractionally less annoying.

[moovova]

“... I went ahead and enrolled in the Pre-Check program. I don’t know if Pre-Check is really a step in the right direction or just a way to pay the government money to avoid their security theater, but at least air travel is now fractionally less annoying.”

We pretty much only fly on airmiles anymore...earned thru American’s charge card program. If we don’t fly first class, we’re generally given pre-check status even though we’ve never signed up thru the pre-check program. I guess they just know enough about us now. And, it does make it less annoying. Although last flight, they rifled thru my bookbag and swabbed it. I don’t have an issue with that. I actually used the time standing there to talk to a very nice-looking young lady that was also having her bag rifled.

[publius911]

I enrolled in the "Trusted Flyer" prior to my last trip to Costa Rica, in 2015.

Unfortunately it is only useful at U.S. airports. Why? I have no clue.
So, for foreign travel, it is one-way convenience.

[Elsie]

I don't know if Pre-Check is really a step in the right direction or just a way to pay the government money to avoid their security theater, but at least air travel is now fractionally less annoying.

Let me help.

If the Mob did it; the courts would call it EXTORTION; and claim the Protection Money was NOT a mere fee for handling.