Finally some good news! Hubby is
finally conditionally approved for GE!
Don't know if it was miraculous timing or what that it happened to update a few days after we sent an email inquiring about it, but it changed over yesterday. (I'm sure we were just premature with our very diplomatic WTH? email, uh huh

) AND he did get an email about the status change... he just totally missed/ignored it yesterday

He complains that I stalk him with the few logins I have for him - mostly the ones I have to create for him, like this one - but if I wasn't checking in today who knows when he might have noticed?
So ok great, what crazy date is PHL out to now? … Oct 30!

When we didn't get it by June I kinda figured it's a long shot to do it at PHL in time for our Sept trip. Fortunately we have a few options and right now we have an appointment scheduled in EWR. There was a sooner one in JFK but I think that's more expensive for us to travel than Newark, so we did that for now and will stalk a few places for the next couple weeks. For those out on the other side of the state, PIT has appointments starting Aug 13 so still pretty reasonable out there.
Since it's not really a "necessity" for this trip, given how we're traveling, I asked if he wanted to just do it in Anchorage or Fairbanks while we are away and will be there anyway picking up rental cars. I think one of them had an appointment for tomorrow available, so should be pretty easy to schedule.

But I think he wants to try out TSA Precheck for this trip so we'll see how it goes. Now I get to stalk the site daily to see if we can get a better appointment.