Skift Business Traveler: Respite for PreCheck Passengers and Nasty Weather
Grant Martin
Photo Credit: Motorists drive slowly on N. Sylvania Ave. after an overnight ice storm in Fort Worth, Texas, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. Fort Worth Star-Telegram / David Kent
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I write this morning from the E terminal of MSP after another adventure making it through TSA's PreCheck lines. With the holidays upon us, this morning is a heavy day for leisure travelers, and one would expect the PreCheck line to be shorter than normal. Not so. Four times the length of the first class line, the checkpoint was stuffed with travelers of all shapes and sizes, and I abandoned my effort to wander over to greener access points.
Back in the first class line, however, I noticed a new strategy from the TSA in dealing with stray precheck passengers. Irrespective of the checkpoint, agents are using the "LLL" code to indicate that a passenger is PreCheck cleared. At the screening, I was allowed to leave my shoes on and go through the magnetometer, though I still had to take my computer out. Over the past two weeks, I've had similar experiences at other airports, though in PIT I was given a laminated card instead of an LLL.
While this isn't the best solution for PreCheck congestion at least it's an alternative option to the ridiculous lines recently.
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