TSA to Begin Limited Trials of its "Trusted Traveler" Program Today

"TSA PreCheck" will be unveiled for select passengers- those departing Atlanta and Detroit as Delta passengers and travelers departing from Miami and Dallas on American Airlines- starting today. According to CNN, in addition to those passengers, the "program will be open to participants in Custom and Border Protection's Trusted Traveler programs, including Global Entry, SENTRI, and NEXUS" (at those same airports). The program is only available to U.S. citizens and is completely voluntary.

The program will not save everyone in it from the possibility of being randomly screened in order to maintain a sense of unpredictability in the security process (and will not eliminate other forms of airport security such as "intelligence gathering and analysis, explosive-detection canine teams, federal air marshals, closed-circuit television monitoring and behavior detection officers"), but should still significantly shorten security-line wait times.

The program is slated to expand in July 2012 to include United, Southwest, JetBlue, US Airways, Alaska Airlines, and Hawaiian Airlines (and will include additional U.S. airports, once they are operational).

Here is the full article from CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/04/travel/trusted-traveler-program/index.html?hpt=tr_c2