What’s The Point of TSA PreCheck if Everyone’s Using It?
Photo Credit: Long Precheck lines at Chicago's O'Hare. Skift / Grant Martin
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
