What’s The Point of TSA PreCheck if Everyone’s Using It?


Skift Take

TSA Precheck may end up being more of a hindrance than a solution to overcrowded security lines, especially at peak times at major gateway airports.

Weaving through the tunnels and baggage claim of O'Hare's Terminal 1 last week, I climbed the stairs to the ticketing level of the airport and stopped dead in my tracks before a line of sullen passengers. “Is this the PreCheck line?” I asked, wildly looking around the terminal. The other passengers grunted in assent and looked back down at their mobile phones. A woman in a commanding yellow dress came skidding up behind me like a stock car driver pulling into a pit stop, latte in hand and with a weathered rollaboard in tow. “Where's PreCheck?” she scowled at us. This isn't an uncommon scene at airports acr