Received an email today from United allowing me to enroll into the TSA’s prescreening program. Initially the program will roll out at Chicago’s O’hare and New York’s Newark (Well New Jersey actually, but I won’t give Jersey the the benefit of the doubt!).
According to the program, you will no longer have to remove Shoes, Belts or Jackets or your Liquids (the 3-1-1 bag). Additionally, your laptop can stay in your carry-on as well!
It looks like a targeted email. When I clicked on the link it had my Trusted Traveller Program ID # already prefilled. Several months ago Continental was letting you sign up to be alerted when the Trusted Traveler Program came to the airline. I suspect anyone that signed up at that point was targeted for this email!
FINALLY! 🙂
The EMAIL:
Also, I believe the program is active only for domestic itineraries, so even if it were to come online instantly you would not be eligible.
Precheck is typically rolled out at individual airports, for individual airlines. For airports where the same security checkpoint gets you to multiple airlines and one or more of those are already doing precheck, UA could come on-line quickly. For new locations there is typically an announcement ahead of time of when the program will roll out.
Does anyone have experience with cross-crediting to different FF programs and precheck? With the greater number of star alliance flyers flying on non-home airlines in the US than oneworld or Skyteam, this will be more of an issue once United and US come on board.
Yep, I got my invitation too, and as I had already filled in the Trusted Traveler ID on my Continental profile, it was prefilled in on United. Eager to use Pre-Check! I’m wondering: Will it work for me on Monday when I fly internationally?
@ DAVE – The email said roll out will be later this year, so unlikely that you would see it this quickly.