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Precheck – TSA Trials Expedited Screening Process

Want to avoid TSA pat downs, long lines and waltz through security with shoes and jackets on, laptops stored and all the soft drinks you can carry?

The Transportation Security Administration is rolling out expedited screening at big airports called “Precheck.” It has special lanes for background-checked travelers, who can keep their shoes, belt and jacket on, leave laptops and liquids in carry-on bags and walk through a metal detector rather than a full-body scan. The process, now at two airlines and nine airports, is much like how screenings worked before the Sept. 11 attacks.

This article points out that you may have to pay a $100.00 fee to register for the program , but for the time it would save, most that travel a great deal would probably agree that its a pretty good investment.

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