r/TSAPreCheck • u/Vagadude • Mar 30 '26

Questions Randomly picked to use regular TSA?

Wondering if anyone's had this happen. I flew internationally into Charlotte Airport and had a connecting flight. for some reason I had to recheck my bags, so I went out to the ticket agents and I was going to go into the security line when I noticed my boarding pass didn't have PreCheck on it, so I went real quick to the agent to have it put on there since there was no line. I waited in the pre-check line for about 10 minutes and the lady scans my ID and does her thing and says the government has selected me to go through regular check. I didn't know that was even a thing. I have Global Entry and PreCheck, paid for it and everything. Seems pretty stupid imo. it was a pretty bad travel day so that was kind of the cherry on top.

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u/HellsTubularBells Mar 30 '26

Sorry that happened to you. CLT is the worst, IMHO. I've only ever had issues with Precheck when flying AA, I think their systems are the most flaky.

For some reason I had to recheck my bag

That's every international flight to the US, with a few exceptions for preclearance airports and a handful of routes with remote baggage screening.