The popularity of TSA’s PreCheck program can be gauged by the fact that an increasing number of airports, airlines, and passengers are enrolling in it. The program includes several dozen airlines, and many new enrollments have taken place recently, including two new airlines in the last few weeks.
Two new airlines join TSA PreCheck
The popular TSA precheck program has added two more airlines to its long list of carriers. On October 1, it was announced that Caribbean Airlines and RED Air are now part of a group of almost 100 airlines that are included in the program.
Caribbean Airlines is the flag carrier of Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica, with its headquarters in Piarco, Trinidad and Tobago. It operates over 600 services a week across the Caribbean, North America, and South America.
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RED Air is a fairly new airline based in the Dominican Republic. It started commercial operations in 2021. The budget airline attracts mostly leisure travelers and is based at La Romana Casa De Campo International Airport.
Both Caribbean Airlines and RED Air join many other airlines that have been included in the TSA PreCheck program in recent months. In April this year, it was announced that Air Premia, Air Tahiti Nui, Air Transat, Bahamasair, BermudAir, Iberia, La Compagnie, and New Pacific Airlines had also joined the program.
In July, Aer Lingus, Air New Zealand, Ethiopian Airlines, and Saudia were also included, while last year, in August, low-cost carriers French bee and Zip Air also joined the program, along with Cayman Airways and Titan Airways.
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Faster airport experience
Every time the PreCheck program expands its reach, the TSA ensures that its benefits are reiterated to everyone during the announcement. Passengers can enroll by visiting the TSA website and then selecting an enrollment provider, such as CLEAR, IDEMIA, or Telos.
After going through a screening procedure, approved travelers are given a Known Traveler Number (KTN), which they can include in their booked airline tickets to get the benefits of the program at airports.
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Approval of the program puts passengers in the low-risk category and exempts them from many security screening procedures. These passengers have dedicated TSA PreCheck lanes at airports, are allowed to keep shoes, belts, and light jackets on, and are allowed to pass through with their laptops inside their carry-on bags.
Growing reach
The TSA PreCheck program is expanding its reach rapidly, as is evident by the number of passengers, airlines, and airports that are now included in it. As covered by Simple Flying before, the TSA PreCheck program has more than 20 million members in the US.
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Other stakeholders are also doing their bit to ensure the program stays popular. For example, Daytona Beach Airport will soon host an enrollment event organized by the TSA, while a few months ago, CLEAR expanded its presence in Hawaii.
In August, there were even talks of US-bound Australian passengers being able to enroll in the US Global Entry and TSA PreCheck programs, as detailed in the article below.
Initially, 1,000 frequent travelers to the US will be given access to the program.
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Publish date : 2024-10-17 20:15:00
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