{"id":39752,"date":"2013-11-17T22:25:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T05:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/17\/southwest-airlines-joins-precheck-program.html"},"modified":"2013-11-17T22:25:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T05:25:41","slug":"southwest-airlines-joins-precheck-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/17\/southwest-airlines-joins-precheck-program.html","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines joins PreCheck program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/i> much easier), while Southwest doesn't.<\/p>\n

Southwest has removed #3 as an issue now. As of a few days ago, they are part of the PreCheck program. Sweet.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Southwest Airlines – TSA Precheck<\/a>
\n Southwest Airlines – TSA Precheck\n <\/p>\n

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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 … Continue reading “Southwest Airlines joins PreCheck program”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[365],"class_list":["post-39752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-365"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27126,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/16\/tsa-solves-the-dont-you-know-who-i-am-problem.html","url_meta":{"origin":39752,"position":0},"title":"TSA solves the "Don't you know who I am?!" problem","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Mar-12 12:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"By letting big business frequent fliers with Amex platinum cards and $100 opt out of most of the security line folderol. 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