If your flight reservation was made before you received your KTN, you can add the KTN here:
https://www.southwest.com/flight/addSecureInfoEntry.html
For all other travel, if you have added your KTN to your Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards profile, the KTN automatically will be attached to future bookings. After logging in to your account, add KTN to RR profile:
https://www.southwest.com/myaccount/preferences/personal/profile/edit
Try https://www.southwest.com/flight/addSecureInfoEntry.html?clk=SITESEARCHWhen I click the one for flight reservation made it says the page has timed out. Can you give me general area that it is at on the web site? Thanks for the help
Just make sure you enter your number in your reservation so your boarding pass shows pre check. For some reason I tend to have issues with SW and AA even when I do this. If that happens, go to the ticket counter and have then enter it and re print the boarding pass.
Two, if paying for TSA pre and there is a possibility of going out of the country in the time frame (5 years) exists, consider paying the difference to get Global Entry ..... the $ is small - but it WILL force you to to an airport (ICE office) for the processing (eliminates the 'new' PRE sites I mentioned forst)
If you live close to Canada check out NEXUS, it gives you both Pre-Check and Global Entry for only $50 for 5 years. It requires an interview with both US and CDN customs. Also from the Trusted Traveler US Govt website "children under 18 do not pay an application fee for NEXUS"
Most centers are located at certain border crossings, but Seattle does has one.
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/nexus/enrollment-centers
I'm planning to do this because I am flying with my teenage daughters this fall and I am a cheapskate. My girls are (will be) 13 and 15 when we go to Florida and we are going again next year. The only thing is, I feel kind of weird about it...like, I have *no* intention of ever leaving the country or going to Canada. We only fly once a year (if that!) and I just can't stomach paying $85 for each of the three of us. I just don't want to get denied because I don't have a valid reason for applying. The only reason I want a NEXUS card is because I am too cheap to pay for $255 for TSA Pre-check when I can get NEXUS for $50 which will still get me TSA Pre-check.
Oh, for sure! I will 100% be honest...I just feel really awkward, KWIM? I have no ulterior motive, just want to save money, plain and simple. The last time I went to Canada was over 20 years ago when I was in college at Uof M. We would cross the border and go to Windsor because the legal drinking age was 19. I was usually the DD since I had the car...and I happened to be the youngest of the bunch. As the driver, I always had to answer the questions at the border in Detroit/Windsor. I knew I was being responsible but I always felt weird when they would ask why we were going to Canada and I would answer "so my 20-year-old friends here can legally go to the bar and get drunk". It was the truth and I was NOT going to lie to border agents...same thing on the way back...when I would return to Michigan with a car load of drunk college students. They would ask what we did in Canada....like it wasn't obvious at that point. I *always* felt like I was going to get in trouble, even though the strongest drink I'd had was Diet Coke! The worst border crossing we had was when I was dating DH (a police officer) and we were in Detroit for the auto show with one of his co-workers. We decided on a whim to go to the casino in Windsor. Well, when we went to cross the border, the guys remembered that they both had their firearms with them. (DH has been an officer for almost 30 years. He carries his gun like his wallet...it is always with him...without thought) Oops! No handguns in Canada...but we were already at the border. I can't remember what exactly they ended up having to do, but it involved locking up their handguns in a locker at the border and filling out some paperwork. So now, we just don't plan to visit Canada anymore.Be honest. It IS a question they will likely ask. And you get to have two interviews one after the other and they might both ask. We weren’t traveling as much to Canada as before, but I wanted easier access to it for when we went. And I wanted GE and Pre. I said that. It wasn’t a problem.
Be honest.
I just feel really awkward, KWIM?
I knew I was being responsible but I always felt weird when they would ask why we were going to Canada and I would answer "so my 20-year-old friends here can legally go to the bar and get drunk"
So now, we just don't plan to visit Canada anymore.