Our preferred carrier is AA and we, too, always seem to get TSA Precheck. For a while I thought it was because we were AA FFs but we took our granddaughter with us this past April and she also got the Precheck approval. First class tix maybe? Who knows!

We recently applied on line and completed the GOES interviews. You schedule your interview on line (or by phone?) at a date that is convenient to you after you've received your preliminary approval notice. We had to drive into JFK to do the interviews so I sure do hope it's worth having made the effort.

They mentioned that the GOES card doesn't guarantee Precheck approval 100% but it's pretty darned close. And even with Precheck there's always the chance you'll get pulled for a random screening as happened to me last April. I wouldn't get the Precheck if I was getting GOES - why spend the extra money? <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.traveltalkonline.com/forums/images/graemlins/handshake.gif" alt="" />