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		koenigdavidmj on Aug 16, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anyone on the same itenerary as a person with TSA ... Doesn’t work all the time. I have it, but my wife doesn’t; we were both denied precheck on one pair of flights. Maybe this is how they incentivize us to get it for her too. EDIT: typo

rorosaurus on Aug 16, 2018 [–]

I had an agent once tell me that "you only get pre 80% of the time". So I just paid for a chance at precheck?

ubernostrum on Aug 17, 2018 | [–]

In quite a few years of having it, I've never "missed" on Pre except when flying a non-participating overseas airline from a US origin.

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