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Despite the fact that I generally fly several times a year, I have dragged my feet on signing up for PreCheck for privacy reasons. Delta used to give it to me on most flights as an unrequested perk, but that stopped years ago.
I finally gave in and signed up last month. I want it for the shorter lines and getting to keep my shoes on, as well as much preferring metal detectors to the naked scanners. I had intended to do Global Entry, which includes PreCheck, but the wait time for that is about five months, and the one for PreCheck was minimal.
The actual process was simple. I filled out forms on the website, and signed up for an appointment a couple of weeks in the future. My original appointment was for July 3, but it was canceled, presumably because someone decided to close the office on the day before July 4, but there was availability on July 5.
The site was a ten-minute drive from my house. The visit to the ID facility also took ten minutes, so the entire deal was about half an hour. I answered a few questions, gave the computer my fingerprints, and paid my money.
The cost was $78 for five years. As I mentioned in a discussion elsewhere, this is a bit of a Vimes's boot situation, since that comes to just over $15/year, but $78 might be a chunk of money to amass all at once for people whose employer expects them to have it but won't pay for it.
I finally gave in and signed up last month. I want it for the shorter lines and getting to keep my shoes on, as well as much preferring metal detectors to the naked scanners. I had intended to do Global Entry, which includes PreCheck, but the wait time for that is about five months, and the one for PreCheck was minimal.
The actual process was simple. I filled out forms on the website, and signed up for an appointment a couple of weeks in the future. My original appointment was for July 3, but it was canceled, presumably because someone decided to close the office on the day before July 4, but there was availability on July 5.
The site was a ten-minute drive from my house. The visit to the ID facility also took ten minutes, so the entire deal was about half an hour. I answered a few questions, gave the computer my fingerprints, and paid my money.
The cost was $78 for five years. As I mentioned in a discussion elsewhere, this is a bit of a Vimes's boot situation, since that comes to just over $15/year, but $78 might be a chunk of money to amass all at once for people whose employer expects them to have it but won't pay for it.
