Is Pre-check or Global Entry worth it?

Former Member

I keep seeing information about making airports easier, and I saw that even the government is setting up programs to let some people go in a fast lane without having to unpack everything or take everything off. But those programs that I read about, the precheck and the Global Entry both cost $$$ to get in, and then you have to get interviewed and ???.

Has anyone done this? Does it really make a difference? Is it hard to get in? If you get in, does it work in airports in other countries too, or only U.S.?

11/11/1312:47 PM

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DrFumblefingerGumbo Guru

I think if you're a frequent business traveler, especially from a city with a busy airport and long TSA lines it makes sense.

But for the average traveler who flies maybe every other month, it doesn't pay to go through yet another hassle. All the more so if you're main airport is smaller with a smooth TSA process.

11/11/136:56 PM

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I dunno...most of my overseas flights have come home through Kennedy in NY or gone out that way, and the way it's been sometimes, I think at $100 for 5 years, I'd take it. I'd probably even take it as a $50 per round-trip deal. When you get off the plane, you want to go home, not wait hours in a line...

11/11/137:00 PM

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DrFumblefingerGumbo Guru

Fortunately, Gulliver, most of us don't wait hours in line. But if that's your experience, it would be a good investment.

But it's yet another thing to take care of.

11/11/137:26 PM

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