TSA Precheck with 14 year old on same booking

Go with what the airline says, but if you are both on the same booking, meaning you purchased both tickets together with the same itinerary, then they should get the Precheck designation on their ticket, otherwise, as a minor, TSA should allow both of you to go together.

My husband. on the same ticket, has always been included on Pre-Check with me. He has no KTN.

The instruction to put your number in another’s ticket surprises me. I would expect it to kick out as an error or worse, but I’ve never tried it. The official should know.

You book you and your child on the same reservation and enter your known traveler number for yourself and you check with airline on how to make sure that precheck is on her ticket. In my experinece, if your KTN does not match your name, you do not get precheck. My daughter had that problem because her reservation did not have her middle name and she did not get precheck even though she has a KTN. Her Global Entry pass has her middle name and her reservation did not. She went through the regular line and we went through precheck carrying all her stuff.

The above sounds like what I would expect. As I said, the instruction to put your KTN on someone else's ticket surprises me. I would not do it, the KTN's are unique to an individual.

Now that I think of it, I have had my adult son before he got his own KTN on my reservation. He got pre-check along with me as well as Hubby.

My daughter had that problem because her reservation did not have her middle name and she did not get precheck even though she has a KTN. Her Global Entry pass has her middle name and her reservation did not. She went through the regular line and we went through precheck carrying all her stuff.

Actually, they don't care about middle names. Some of my reservations have my middle name, some don't. Never had a problem. (I asked and they said middle names are not as important as first and last names matching.)

However, you are not guaranteed precheck all the time. Occasionally, they may deny it to people for spot checks. And, you have to make sure the KTN is included in your reservation. Not all airlines are up to speed on this.

My daughter did have her KTN in her reservation. Our issue happened with United in Newark and SFO. It’s happened twice. We are United frequent fliers and our KTNs are always in our reservations. Both times the ticket agent was unable to get my daughter’s boarding pass to include TSA pre-check. It also happened at FLL but the agent there fixed it and told us to make sure going forward that the name on the reservation perfectly matches the name on the Global Entry card.

i just checked. As an example, my GE card has my full middle name. My American Airlines has my middle initial in my FF account but it never shows up on my boarding card. British Airways doesn't have my middle name or middle initial in my FF account and it also doesn't show on my boarding card. (British Airways doesn't have a space for middle names.)

I never had a problem with PreCheck.

Make sure the name in her United FF account matches her GE card with at least her middle initial. It may not show on your reservation but that's what's sent to TSA.