British Airways has signed up to TSA pre-check

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• KBuffett says:

  3 Jun3 June 06:58

  OT – I’m going to doing a few mattress runs to achieve my Marriott Platinum Challenge. However, does anyone know any good Marriotts in and around London/Surrey where my wife & I might enjoy a stay for a night or two?

  • Crafty says:

    3 Jun3 June 10:10

    Regents Park is quite nice, the lounge staff treated me well.

  • Cat says:

    3 Jun3 June 15:32

    I always really liked Hanbury Manor (although that’s a bit further out) – I spent most of my long teacher holiday there in the summer of 2012, as my other half was working at the lab there (keeping the Olympic athletes honest), and they gave him a rather lovely room to save him commuting from London on a daily basis. The pool is lovely, the gym is great (there’s a class timetable), the spa is fab, there’s golf if you’re into that sort of thing, the restaurant is great and the grounds are beautiful.

    • Jim says:

      3 Jun3 June 20:49

      “keeping the Olympic athletes honest”

      Not much hope of that. Drugs use is rife across many sports.

      • Cat says:

        5 Jun5 June 08:35

        OK, point taken, perhaps “keeping the Olympic athletes’ hormone-injecting doctors on their toes” would have been a more accurate description!

• David says:

  3 Jun3 June 07:09

  The route this Mancunian expat has been waiting for!!

  Thanks Rob! Home to Home on one flight! Perfect!

• IMH says:

  3 Jun3 June 07:43

  It’s true — I had TSA pre on a BA boarding pass for the first time coming out of IAH this weekend. There’s no actual pre-check line at Terminal D, however… We were allowed to keep our shoes on and most (possibly all) pre-check passengers were sent through the old-fashioned WMD rather than the nudie scanner.

• Mark says:

  3 Jun3 June 07:47

  Hi Rob

  Have you any idea when the Virgin MAN to LAS flights will be available to book, I tried booking UC yesterday and they had no idea that the schedule had changed to 4 flights per week, let alone that the aircraft had changed from the 747 to the Airbus A330.

  • ChrisC says:

    3 Jun3 June 10:04

    VS starts to sell approx 11 months (I think actually 333 days) before departure so it’s a little early for the some of the new flights to be in the search engines.

• Go says:

  3 Jun3 June 07:57

  I’m thinking of upgrading my gold charge card. Does the supplementary platinum holder get the same status benefits with hotel chains?

  • Andrew* says:

    3 Jun3 June 07:59

    Yes

  • MarkH says:

    3 Jun3 June 08:37

    Yes but they need to apply separately

  • Darren says:

    3 Jun3 June 10:17

    Is this an upgrade just for the benefits or a targeted bonus?

  • Rob says:

    3 Jun3 June 12:04

    Yes

• Nicky says:

  3 Jun3 June 08:14

  As mentioned above (unless I have read this wrong) you can do enrolment on arrival now. I am applying for global entry later today and will do enrolment on arrival in September when I fly to NY. Has anyone done this yet?

  • S says:

    3 Jun3 June 08:43

    At Nicky I have done this couple of months ago. It’s not always available and you need to be aware of the times. I was lucky kind immigration officer opened the booth for us. Thanks

    • Nicky says:

      3 Jun3 June 08:52

      Thanks for replying. I did contact border control at JFK and verified their opening times but think I may contact them again and give my flight details to let them know that I am planning to do enrolment on arrival. I also intend to book an interview at my departure airport for the day I leave just in case (and can cancel it if I am successful on arrival).

      • Nicola says:

        3 Jun3 June 18:18

        Hi. You can pre-book an appointment to suit your landing time. Details provided when you apply for Global Entry

• Graham says:

  3 Jun3 June 08:21

  My wife and I flew PDX to LHR last week on Delta in business. We do not have Global Entry and have not applied for TSA Pre-check. But our boarding passes had TSA Pre-check printed on them. We took the Pre-check line through security and literally walked straight through. I’m struggling to understand why we got Pre-check. Was it just an error? Has anyone else had this experience?

  • Jonathan says:

    3 Jun3 June 08:53

    You often get this if over a certain age (?60) or travelling in a premium cabin ona US Airline. Theories are if you’re older you present a lower risk and for business class it’s a perk to tempt you to join GE/Pre or to keep flow through Pre line high enough to justify the staff allocated.

    As GE/Pre becomes more widely held they are apparently reducing/eliminating these extra passengers so don’t count on it regularly I’m afraid.

    If you do travel regularly to US then I’d highly recommend applying. My wife & I have it as leisure travellers & reckon we’ll get 6-8 trips out of our 5 year membership which works out at less than £10 for each Immigration queue jump and Security hassle.

    Ps. As a tip to anyone applying, the membership lasts till your 6th birthday after interview so if you can time it right you essentially get a year free. This would persist on renewal if you weren’t required to go for another interview.

• Alan says:

  3 Jun3 June 08:23

  Yep, it’s been up and running for a few weeks now – as I mentioned in comments at the time you can add your KTN in MMB although at present you can’t put it in your BA.com profile. Glad to finally have this, makes a big difference. Annoyingly it looks like renewing GE requires repaying the UKBF fee as well as the GE one.

  • Matt says:

    3 Jun3 June 09:10

    Wow KTN MMB BA GE UKBF to you too 🙂

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