Interested In TSA PreCheck? It Might Soon Be Cheaper & Easier To Sign Up
June 21, 2019The Transportation Security Administration is weighing a variety of options, including a new fee structure and mobile enrollment, to attract more travelers to its PreCheck program.
“We want to get people into the program and so we’d like to make it easier,” TSA Acting Deputy Administrator Patricia Cogswell said in an interview with USA TODAY in Chicago this week. ”And that means not only make it easier for them to sign up, but also if they just want to try it out, they don’t have to feel like, ‘Oh, I spent five years worth of my money.”
Enrollment in the expedited screening program, which is $85 for five years and allows vetted travelers to keep on their shoes, coats and belts and leave laptops and eligible liquids in their bags, has fallen far short of projections of 5 million new enrollments a year.