Horror stories will always hit social media. I know someone who flew yesterday. She checked security times online all day. Were typical/low all day. When she arrived it was just like any other travel day.
And I'm not even on Social Media - so I'm glad I'm not seeing that! I did get a email from the TSA warning me though, thought that was odd. Oh well.
I always give international trips extra time! It’s just so much at stake. (The one time I decided I’d be chill and only arrive 2 hours early instead of 3 at my smallish airport American Airlines like Saber system went down and the line to check in was a couple hundred people deep as they had to hand process everyone. Thankfully I was business class so I got to cut the line and their system came back up like half an hour later so everyone was good- but boy was that a lesson lol.)
Global Entry helps you on the way back not when leaving the U.S. but if you're flying back to the U.S. from Dublin they also utilize Pre-Clearance for multiple airlines which means you go through Customs in Dublin if flying directly back into the U.S.
Yes, that’s correct.
My husband hasn't had any issues personally himself and he's flown a good amount since the partial shutdown and to multiple airports (Boise, Vegas, Indy, Phoenix, a few in California).
It's in the eye of the beholder to me. My old airport and the new one the security line has never been a problem, the speediness in getting through was never really truly in favor of pre-check. But the other things that went with it were, now tech and adjusted rules (such as shoes can be kept on in the regular line) have adjusted that and will continue to adjust that but I find overall more smooth than what I see over in regular lines (except Atlanta last September was a bad pre-check experience).I renewed my precheck last month and my husband today (just able to today) and got a message about high volume of requests.
Everyone is going to apply for precheck now and so many people will have it, soon it will be useless anyways!
It's in the eye of the beholder to me. My old airport and the new one the security line has never been a problem, the speediness in getting through was never really truly in favor of pre-check. But the other things that went with it were, now tech and adjusted rules (such as shoes can be kept on in the regular line) have adjusted that and will continue to adjust that but I find overall more smooth than what I see over in regular lines (except Atlanta last September was a bad pre-check experience).
We have Global Entry, my husband's company paid for his, our credit card paid for mine, I wasn't the one to decide to include pre-check in there with that but I am certainly going to continue to use it
Oh I knowWe've actually never had a wait with pre-check. Even at MCO, at most 5 minutes.
I'm just just joking really about if too many people have it, line will be as long as regular security.
and there for sure does seem like a lot of people with pre-check in the last 5 years compared to before!
