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Is the TSA’s $85 PreCheck Program Too Pricey?
The spring travel nightmare has caused a surge of applications, but a lower fee might really open the floodgates.
Travel Headaches: Can We Speed Up Airport Security Lines?
The “divesting” of shoes, laptops, and toothpaste tubes, to use the U.S. Transportation Security Agency’s term, has been one factor in the airport security lines entangling U.S. travelers this spring.
The agency’s PreCheck program is designed to fix that problem and move the lines—but only 2.77 million people have enrolled to date, far below projections. The TSA wants to have 25 million people signed up by 2019 for federal “trusted traveler” programs such as PreCheck, for domestic travel, and Global Entry, the program for international travelers run by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.