“No way I’m taking my shoes off if I don’t have to.”
A long-awaited getaway can easily turn fraught when it begins with this minorAt the airport, every moment of interface is a reminder of one’s relative status. There are major injustices, like racial profiling at security, and there are minor insults, like the service discrepancies Precheck and frequent flyer programs create. If you’re traveling alone or with a buddy of similar standing, those smaller inequities are visible but bearable.
I asked more than a dozen people in mixed-Precheck-status relationships to think this over with me, and I was surprised to find a near-consensus: Almost all of them said they split up at security when only one member of the couple gets the Precheck stamp. In conversations over Twitter, email, and the phone, some people told me they felt no guilt leaving their partner among the huddled masses, or no resentment when their partner sped through Precheck without them.
One of the few people who told me they don’t split up with their partner is Andrew Kwok, 27, of San Francisco. “Every time we go through security at an airport, I default to taking the regular line with him, but I passive aggressively joke about the sacrifices I make for him,” Kwok said. “If I made it to a flight and he didn’t, I still wouldn’t take it, so I feel like flying with him nullifies my Precheck.
Looking back, I’m sure I could have afforded Precheck. My wife and I would joke that she was some kind of Daddy Warbucks getting her white-glove treatment in the Precheck metal detector, but at $85 for five years, the program is hardly a luxury.
I heard similar versions of Danny’s story from several other people, who said differences in airline status created more drama in their relationships than Precheck did. One woman told me her high-status ex would often get bumped up to first class without her; he once booked his ticket separately from hers to ensure he’d get his upgrade, which she said “really highlighted an overall pattern in our relationship that I was less important than he was.
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