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If you’re following me on Twitter or Instagram then you know I was in San Francisco last week to attend a European travel conference. I flew up on American Airlines and I noticed that in both airports there were travelers in the TSA PreCheck line that had no clue what they were doing or how they got there. I later learned that the airlines and TSA are giving the special pre-clearance security to a bunch of travelers who aren’t frequent fliers or PreCheck members.
I actually noticed this same trend the week before when I took my dad to Vegas for his birthday and he was given the privilege himself and he’s neither a frequent traveler nor signed up to PreCheck. He’s 85 and not a security threat, but in San Francisco there were a couple of travelers in front of me in their late twenties who wouldn’t stop high-fiving each other for not having to take their shoes off or laptops or liquids out. I asked if they were PreCheck members or frequent travelers and they both said no. Then just a few minutes ago a friend of mine posted this photo above from LAX saying “And today I have never appreciated this more. Thank you TSA, I heart you and my 5 min security line while the airport is a messsss this AM.”
I’m not sure if what’s going on with PreCheck is good or bad—but what do you think?
Was TSA Pre-Approved – I had put my boarding pass into my purse (which was approved) and going thru the scanner…went thru the body scanner – they told me to take off my Skeetcher shoes….After going thru the scanner, i was frisked! What the heck!!!!
For these people that are supposed experts in security my mind is boggled. How does doing all these background checks and finger printings which are paid for get bypassed by random people who are let through that did jack?! That’s a major security flaw and disguising it under “random tripping up the terrorists” is ironic. Also isn’t it a denial of due process if I am denied on my application by something unreasonable and I cannot defend my case? I know it’s voluntary but I should have a right to know who and what is done with my personal information. It makes me sick that I have to pay for this broken system.