Is TSA Pre-Check Worth It?

The average person with precheck said it takes 36 minutes to get through airport security.

Do you have TSA precheck, and is it worth it? A study found it only saves an average of seven minutes, but they’re a hard seven minutes.

The average person with precheck said it takes 36 minutes to get through airport security. That’s compared to 43 minutes for everyone else. Precheck people also get to the airport just as early: 1 hour and 41 minutes for domestic flights, compared to 1 hour and 47 minutes for non-precheckers. tTey claim precheck makes the whole experience a lot less stressful, though. On a scale from 1 to 10, people with precheck rated the stress of getting through security as a 3.4. That’s compared to a 7.3 before they signed up.