TSA Pre-Check For Dispatchers

Hey, maybe it should be lobbied by dispatchers on behalf of the ADF to try and allow for passage in the pre check line if already CASS approved?
 
Have you tried updating Myidtravel with your KTN? Better yet just print out a boarding pass from your airline with "PreCheck" on it and use that to get through TSA then go about your jumpseating business anyway..
 
Dispatch_Ken said:
Have you tried updating Myidtravel with your KTN? Better yet just print out a boarding pass from your airline with "PreCheck" on it and use that to get through TSA then go about your jumpseating business anyway..
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The problem with this is many of us cannot just print our own boarding passes. Because our airline doesn't have boarding passes. If i worked for you standard networked self loading cargo haulers, I'd skip the whole jumpseating business and non rev (if seats are available) and show up in jeans and have a cold beer on the way.

The two airports I fly out of the most, I've got it down. It's still a hassle to deal with the shoes/belt and stuff, but at least I get through the employee line and skip the large bulk of the wait. And I rarely stop to get a pass before going through the gate (only at airports I don't fly but occasionally). Even then, the TSA folks seem to have different rules for everywhere.

It helps we have the magic "C" word on our IDs though. I've also suggested that we get a uniform (mainly because we have issues with various customs officers around the world doing Fam rides.... Hong Kong and mainland China come to mind), but the dispatchers would of course have 5 stripes... or Commodore's bars.
 
McCrosky said:
The problem with this is many of us cannot just print our own boarding passes. Because our airline doesn't have boarding passes. If i worked for you standard networked self loading cargo haulers, I'd skip the whole jumpseating business and non rev (if seats are available) and show up in jeans and have a cold beer on the way.

The two airports I fly out of the most, I've got it down. It's still a hassle to deal with the shoes/belt and stuff, but at least I get through the employee line and skip the large bulk of the wait. And I rarely stop to get a pass before going through the gate (only at airports I don't fly but occasionally). Even then, the TSA folks seem to have different rules for everywhere.

It helps we have the magic "C" word on our IDs though. I've also suggested that we get a uniform (mainly because we have issues with various customs officers around the world doing Fam rides.... Hong Kong and mainland China come to mind), but the dispatchers would of course have 5 stripes... or Commodore's bars.
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Sorry, I didn't think about you cargo guys...my bad! Oh well, maybe we are all forgetting how much fun free travel is! So what if it's a minor inconvenience that we have to stand in line; people that pay full price for tickets also have to stand in line.
 
McCrosky said:
It helps we have the magic "C" word on our IDs though. I've also suggested that we get a uniform (mainly because we have issues with various customs officers around the world doing Fam rides.... Hong Kong and mainland China come to mind), but the dispatchers would of course have 5 stripes... or Commodore's bars.
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I really wish my company gave us the magic "C" word on our IDs----actually, I think all dispatchers should have that word printed on their IDs especially since we are considered "Additional Crew Members".
 
Dispatch_Ken said:
Sorry, I didn't think about you cargo guys...my bad! Oh well, maybe we are all forgetting how much fun free travel is! So what if it's a minor inconvenience that we have to stand in line; people that pay full price for tickets also have to stand in line.
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Yeah I forgot to add the last line about I realize I'm complaining a lot about free flying privileges. And even still I've made it in record times through security to butt in seat. (Office chair to pax airplane seat in SDF in under 30 minutes ain't bad).
 
I would like to see something done about this. TSA is very inconsistent across the country. I am often told that I have to either be in uniform or have a SIDA badge to get through. Well we don't have uniforms...we don't usually have SIDA badges, and it seems like the fact that we have an airline Id isn't respected anymore and as an employee who had to submit to an FAA required background check just to get that badge...I find it insulting that the TSA doesn't seem to care. I know some airlines put the word crew on their badges...and while I would not mind seeing this, given that we don't have uniforms, I am not sure it would help all that much. I don't know what the answer is ultimately.
 
I believe that badges with the word CREW are actually regulated/controlled by tsa regs where airline id's without the CREW on it ...
 
Well and correct me if I'm wrong but most airline IDs don't have expiration dates on them, so they can not be used as a form of ID to get through TSA checkpoints. (Except Envoy and AA badges in DFW, no one ever gave me grief about my badge down there)
 
Being as Dx jobs actually require that you sit in the cockpit in the performance of your duties, (not just for personal travel) I think the badges should include the crew stamp
 
It seems a shame, but I very much doubt that is one the top of anyone's list of things to get done. I wonder how many TSA agents know what a dispatcher is; better question, how many do you think care what a dispatcher is? I'm sure it's very tiresome and I hate waiting in line as much as the next person, but it's unlikely to ever change.

Maybe you'll get lucky and they'll start letting you use the employee line at all the airports. I would say you will probably see that before you see the word "Crew" on your badge. More so, even if it says crew you still won't have a uniform (and we can all agree that's definitely for the best).
 
More than that, even if the TSA suddenly said that all airline personal could use employee lanes in all airports, how many airports would realistically follow that rule. It seems the last people to hear about security changes are the TSA checkpoint workers.
 
Dispatch_Ken said:
Well and correct me if I'm wrong but most airline IDs don't have expiration dates on them, so they can not be used as a form of ID to get through TSA checkpoints. (Except Envoy and AA badges in DFW, no one ever gave me grief about my badge down there)
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I don't have crew on my id, but I have an expiration date....mine expires every year, but at past employers it was 2 years. So you are wrong.
 
Dispatch_Ken said:
Well and correct me if I'm wrong but most airline IDs don't have expiration dates on them, so they can not be used as a form of ID to get through TSA checkpoints. (Except Envoy and AA badges in DFW, no one ever gave me grief about my badge down there)
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My US badge had a expiration date and my current companies badge has a exp date.
 
I do know that Pinnacle/Endeavor and Colgan when they were were owned by PNCL all had their Dispatchers badges with Crew.
 
ORD is one place all you need is a ID and say your jumpseating and your let right through. All other places I've seen to have an issue of some sort.
 
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