Sweet. There are three reasons why I travel United on my business travel instead of Southwest: (1) I'm already (for this year) a United Premium Frequent Flyer, so might as well enjoy those perks while I can; (2) My company's automated travel agent makes it easier to purchase United than Southwest (or, rather, Southwest makes it more difficult / less integrated to do so); (3) United does PreCheck (which makes the security line so much easier), while Southwest doesn't.
Southwest has removed #3 as an issue now. As of a few days ago, they are part of the PreCheck program. Sweet.
Southwest Airlines – TSA Precheck
Southwest Airlines – TSA Precheck
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Austin had really, really long security lines this morning so they opened the PreCheck lines to everybody. So I went over. It was nice.
We are SWA Rapid Rewards members, we'll take advantage of this next time.