Articles tagged “precheck”

You can imagine one major security lapse putting pressure on the gutting of self-screening. On the other hand, TSA manual screening has been rife with miscues, as well.

Prospective nominee Major Gen. John Kelly as Department of Homeland Security secretary certainly has experience in border protection and could play a key role if President-Elect Trump cracks down on immigration, illegal and legal. Kelly's views on airport security and the TSA have yet to be articulated but privatization efforts would not be surprising.

Airline loyalty programs have offered TSA PreCheck as a perk, but this marks the first time a hotel company has done so. Here's hoping the PreCheck program, embattled by TSA budget cuts, will improve enough to become a real, tangible perk for travelers.

The days of confused passengers in the Precheck line are finally coming to a close.

The TSA had been on the upswing until a lack of leadership brought it back down. Let's hope the new guy thinks big and acts bigger.

Is the knee-jerk TSA hate coming to an end? If so, the battle is being won one airport security check at a time.

Should there be stiffer requirements to get into the TSA PreCheck program as it expands, and the results of the Harris Poll suggest? It's not a bad idea, resources-permitting.

The TSA finally has something consumers like in PreCheck. Can it build on its success, or will bureaucracy and political squabbles confuse matters?

JetBlue's frequent flyers are truly blue that just about all the other big U.S. airlines are participating in TSA PreCheck, but JetBlue has yet to get in.

There have been complaints from some U.S. passengers that the TSA PreCheck lines are getting very crowded, sometimes more bottled up than the regular security lines. Well, with the addition of Southwest, they are about to get more clogged.