Consistency with TSA...About as probable as me hittin the Powerball.:rolleyes:

I love it when they lecture me about not taking my travel shaving cream out....Why should I? No else has bothered me the last billion times I went through...:mad:

Need a pilot?

My next company pilot is currently taking her flight lessons....

Lemme see if I get this right.....the rules and those who enforce them are stupid, therefore we lie to make it easier on ourselves? That'll fix the problem for sure....

I used to carry a dinner knife (butter knife) and a fork in my bags for those too-frequent lonely layover microwave meals. The utensils were "borrowed" from a first-class meal tray.

Inevitably, TSA - "You can't have that knife on the secure side!"

"Uhhh, that's the exact same knife delivered to the passengers in quantity when they eat their inflight meals."

"Doesn't matter. It's a knife. You can't have it. You might attempt to take control of the airplane." :rolleyes:

Check the list of airports that you need to go to for the interview before you send the $ for Global Entry. Lack of available slots makes it really hard to schedule a visit when you are passing through.

Gotta love that profoundly uneducated Tub Stacking Association line.

My reply of: "What about the crash axe that is REQUIRED to be on the airplane, in the cockpit, before we can depart?" was always entertaining. You could see the wheels turning (albiet slowly) with that one.

"If I don't take control of the airplane I'm not doing my job!" always threw them for a loop too.

:D

Glad I don't have to deal with them on a daily basis anymore.

If you need to get a box from New York to LA overnight, there's Norfolk & Way. :eek::D

The last time I went through Ontario,CA as a pax, I presented my TSA pre-check Global Entry ID card, and the person did not know what it was, nor did the supervisor!!!! I was , am still flabbergasted at that one.

I am a platinum elite on Delta, and never get challenged about anything at participating airports when traveling on Delta. Waltz right through. Well, I am not an elite member on United, and get the full finger wave each time I travel on United. I think you have to be an elite status member on each airline for the TSA pre-check to help. Makes no sense to me, we've been checked, and heavy checked, and "D" checked, and still treated like a common criminal.

I just used TSA Pre-Check while traveling on USAir and I'm not I their frequent flier program. You just have to get your PassID number that's on the back of your Global Entry card put in the Known Traveller box in your reservation before you travel. I just called USAir and they put it in for me. TSA Pre-Check was even on my return boarding pass without me doing anything.