'Selfless'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
OK, so people do still have to take off their shoes?
They didn't have people doing this the last couple times I flew through Fort Lauderdale. They didn't even want me to take my laptop out of the carry-on, while in the past it had to go through on its own.
I'm taking my CPAP machine, so I expect that will catch some interest.
About half the time in Boston, I seem to get put in a Pre-Check lane even though I don't have it. It's great!
I did the TSA Precheck thing and my experience was like amyth's except that the office at BWI is closer to me. It has been so worth it!
Pre-Check is domestic only, but signing up for the international (Global Entry) gets you Pre-Check domestic and special lanes for customs, etc., for $100.
Yeah, in retrospect, I wish I had done Global Entry. I'm going to do that when my KTN expires.
StuntHusband has done the TSA Precheck, and is thrilled with it. I'm considering doing Global Entry, especially since it looks like I'll be doing more visits to the Ottawa and Copenhagen offices.
I don't think I'm going to become so much the mad travelers that I'll require special handling.
Hm, I wonder where all Amtrak goes that's fun? Anymore, it's not stuff I want, it's places I want to go.
Cool, Jilli. Always wanted to see Copenhagen(my great-grandpa immigrated from it)
Pre-Check is domestic only, but signing up for the international (Global Entry) gets you Pre-Check domestic and special lanes for customs, etc., for $100.
What Sparky said--I signed up for Global Entry, and while I only leave the country a few times a year, it's pretty sweet. And gets me precheck, which is really why I signed up. Though the precheck lines are getting longer and longer as they funnel more and more people through them, which is annoying to me...but I'm happy to not take out my laptop or take off my shoes.
(I think this is how the terrorist win: when the government takes away so much that you're happen when you get a few things back...when you would've been annoyed at the beginning to be where you end up...)