<p>Does anyone have any experience with this? When booking a flight reservation, if the number is entered into the flight reservation is that usually enough to activate the program and allow the traveler to speed on through?</p>
<p>I have it. You need to do the registration process online, then they let you know you are ready for in-person fingerprinting process w Customs/Immigration. (In NYC at Customs House at Bowling Greene). Your passport is then in the system & you have a sticker on the back. </p>
<p>I registered my number with ff pages. </p>
<p>Is this what you are looking for?</p>
<p>My wife and I both have global entry. Each airline usually has an online customer profile where you can enter your “Known Traveller” number. Presumably the airline will check the number you enter with the TSA database. If you do this before you fly (a few days seems to be long enough) then when you get your boarding pass it will say “TSA pre-check” on it. Both paper and electronic boarding passes have this. Then when you get to the airport their may be a separate line for TSA pre-check folks. If there is then you are in great shape. If not, then you are in line with everyone else.</p>
<p>I have it. Worth every penny for the TSA pre-check. I sent you a PM, zooser.</p>
<p>I was just trying to find out if registering the number with FF pages was a required component of being able to use it. Thank you!</p>
<p>BTW, if you are planning to do Global Entry, look into getting a credit card that will reimburse the fee. I know American Express Platinum does it, and I think there are a few others. Granted, these cards all have annual fees greater than the Global Entry fee, but the cards also pay for themselves in other ways, so it will likely be a net win if you travel with any frequency.</p>
<p>For Global Entry - entering the US through immigration - you do not need to have put your Known Traveler number into the reservation system. When you get to immigration, you simply by-pass the LONG line and go to the Global Entry machine - put your fingers in, it spits out a receipt, then you hand it to the designated Immigration officer. It also gets you through Customs quickly after you get your bags.</p>
<p>For Pre-Check - getting through TSA screening at airports - you do need to enter your number when making your reservation (or have it in your Frequent Flyer profile). It will then be printed on your boarding pass. If the airport has a designated Pre-Check lane, you go there, hand your boarding pass and ID to the TSA agent and then you go to a specified lane. If it doesn’t have a designated lane, you stand in the regular line but then you are treated differently. You do not have to remove your shoes or outerwear (maybe a coat, but not sweat shirts, etc.) You also do not have to put your baggie with liquids into the bin - they can stay in your bag. You DO have to remove your laptop and put it in the bin along with any metal in your pockets. You then go through a metal detector but not the more invasive scanning devices. </p>
<p>It makes flying a lot more tolerable.</p>
<p>I was one of the early ones and had minor trouble with Delta. Global had my middle name and Delta only had my middle initial so they were unable “match” my profile for TSA. I haven’t tried it lately so I assume they have gotten the bugs out.</p>
<p>DH has it. United paid the fee his because he flies so much. Love it – though he still has to wait in baggage claim if he checked a bag… :)</p>
<p>I flew through terminal A in Boston last Sunday, and didn’t have to take off my shoes or coat or belt, or take my laptop out of the bag. This was everybody, not the Global Entry thing. No x-ray either, just a metal detector.</p>
<p>It was almost like the good old days.</p>
<p>They did have a new machine in the security line where they were wiping people’s hands with some kind of probe and then sticking it is a machine. I assume they were looking for trace chemicals, but they waved me past it so I couldn’t ask.</p>
<p>I have the Global Entry status. It is great to breeze through customs when arriving after a long international flight. I don’t think it is necessary to enter into your airline FF profile. I think the status is just associated with your passport, and not tied to any particular flight. I’ve used the status when I’ve flown on an airline that I am not an FF member for. </p>
<p>BTW, others have mentioned the TSA Pre-Check, which is different than Global Entry and allows you to breeze through security when checking in for a flight. I think that is tied to your airline FF program. I just got that too, and was told that if you already have Global Entry status, it is very quick and easy to get approved for TSA Pre-Check.</p>
<p>I have both Global Entry and TSA Pre-check – worth every penny. </p>
<p>Global Entry is agnostic to what airline you fly – it’s not “triggered” by your reservation, you just go up to the Global Entry kiosk after landing in the US and present your passport with the special sticker. </p>
<p>I believe (though won’t swear to it) that TSA Pre-check is activated by your frequent flyer number - that is, it won’t recognize you as TSA Pre-check-eligible off just your name. You aren’t guaranteed to get it every time you go through, and I believe it doesn’t “cross” airlines (for example, I get it on United, which is my frequent airline, but not on American, which is only an occasional airline for me).</p>
<p>Does that answer your question?</p>
<p>Pizzagirl, yes. Thank you all so much.</p>
<p>“I flew through terminal A in Boston last Sunday, and didn’t have to take off my shoes or coat or belt, or take my laptop out of the bag. This was everybody, not the Global Entry thing. No x-ray either, just a metal detector.”</p>
<p>That has nothing to do with Global Entry. That sounds like TSA pre-check – shoes on, coat on, laptop in bag. </p>
<p>“They did have a new machine in the security line where they were wiping people’s hands with some kind of probe and then sticking it is a machine. I assume they were looking for trace chemicals, but they waved me past it so I couldn’t ask.”</p>
<p>That’s been around for a couple of years. When you fly a lot, you get immune to even noticing what goes on in security lines or what machines they are using!</p>
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<p>I think this depends on how you got Pre-check. I have Pre-check because I have Global Entry. I did not have to do anything extra to get Pre-check. And it works on any airline, so long as I enter my Known Traveler # into my reservation. </p>
<p>If you have Pre-check because you’re a “super” frequent flyer with a certain airline and that airline expedited it for you (which, originally, was the only way to get Pre-check), then, I’m pretty sure, it only works on that airline.</p>
<p>That’s helpful. I think that’s how I got Pre-check (from United frequent flyer, in my case) and then I got Global Entry separately, nothing to do with United. I wonder if I enter my Known Traveler # (which I don’t, actually, know) onto a non-United reservation, would I get Pre-check? Does my Global Entry “grandfather” me into non-United pre-checks?</p>
<p>I get the TSA lines, too, because I’m a frequent flier. However, my husband doesn’t fly as frequently, and he doesn’t have the pre-check on his tickets.</p>
<p>Is he allowed to go through the pre-check / TSA line when traveling with me?</p>
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<p>Because you have Global Entry, you should be able to get Pre-check with any airline. Put your Known Traveler # (it’s on the back of your Global Entry card) into your reservation and it should work. </p>
<p>Spouses do not get the benefit of Pre-check (or Global Entry) . . . they have to apply on their own.</p>
<p>global entry does give you the pre check status, but you are always subject to playing the silly security theater game at the whim of a bureaucrat for any reason or no reason at all.</p>