Tulsa Airport one of 60 sites to get TSA Precheck program
By KYLE ARNOLD World Business Writer on Sep 4, 2013, at 2:46 PM Updated on 9/04/13 at 3:39 PM
Aerospace
The first addition to the Boeing 787 family took off Tuesday from Paine Field, near the factory where the plane was assembled, to the cheers of a couple of hundred Boeing Co. employees who watched the blue and white plane with a number 9 on the tail rise into a cloudy sky.
Bombardier's CSeries aircraft completed its maiden flight Monday in a successful test run of the new narrow-body airplane.
Tulsa International Airport is one of 60 airports across the country that will get expedited security lines, the Transport Security Administration announced Wednesday.
TSA’s PreCheck program exempts select frequent flyers from taking off their shoes, belts and light jackets and lets them keep laptops in bags.
It also allows liquids to be kept in plastic bags.
The program is supposed to be operating in Tulsa by the end of the year. Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City is also one of the facilities slated for the expanded TSA PreCheck program.
“As TSA continues to move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to transportation security, we are looking for more opportunities to provide the most effective security in the most efficient way possible,” said TSA Administrator John S. Pistole in a statement. “Expanding TSA PreCheck to more locations enables many more passengers across the country to experience expedited screening.”
To date the agency has had the expedited security lines in 40 airports. The additional 60 programs will bring PreCheck to 100 airports total.
Flyers have to be referred their airline to TSA to participate in the program, or enroll online and verify at one of two enrollment centers in Washington D.C. and Indianapolis. For those not referred by their airline, it costs $85 to enroll in the program.
The program is only available to frequent flyers on Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines, United Airlines, US Airways and Virgin American. JetBlue and Southwest are soon expected to join the program.
PreCheck participants will have a customer bar code printed on their boarding pass. Once customers go through the initial boarding pass screening with TSA agents, they will be directed to the expedited line. The security agency will still perform random screenings for PreCheck passengers.
The original PreCheck program launched in Oct. 2011.
Aerospace
The first addition to the Boeing 787 family took off Tuesday from Paine Field, near the factory where the plane was assembled, to the cheers of a couple of hundred Boeing Co. employees who watched the blue and white plane with a number 9 on the tail rise into a cloudy sky.
Bombardier's CSeries aircraft completed its maiden flight Monday in a successful test run of the new narrow-body airplane.
