The Points Guy
Sean Cudahy
01 October 2024

On any given day, about a third of passengers who pass through Transportation Security Administration checkpoints use the TSA PreCheck lanes.

The agency's top leader hopes it'll someday be three-quarters of passengers.

"We have said publicly, and I'll say it again here: We want more people in PreCheck," TSA administrator David Pekoske said last week during remarks at the 2024 Regional Airline Association Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C.

To be clear, he doesn't mean three-quarters of all travelers; PreCheck passengers tend to fly more than the average American — so on a particular day, make up an outsized portion of passengers at an airport.

Still, it's an ambitious goal.

Read on: TSA chief wants huge TSA PreCheck member growth — and says those big CT scanners are faster than you think - The Points Guy

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