The Transportation Security Administration will operate a temporary enrollment center for its PreCheck program that will be open for five days next month in Glendale.
The center will operate Aug. 2-6 at the Hyatt Place Denver/Cherry Creek, 4150 E Mississippi Ave.
“Demand has been high at the permanent application center at DIA and the other two Denver-area centers, so this will enable more travelers to enroll this summer,” TSA Colorado Federal Security Director Larry Nau said in a statement.
Applicants can go to meeting room No. 4 at the hotel, 10 a.m to 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.
PreCheck enrollment has been booming since the long TSA security checkpoint lines this spring made headlines across the nation. Interest in the program grew so high that there were backlogs of 45 days for those seeking an appointment at enrollment centers in Thornton in Lakewood.
TSA said on Monday that those waits have gone away. As of last week, about 11,500 people were enrolling for the program each day, even though security wait times in Denver and around the country have eased.
Until recently, TSA had a hard time drawing travelers to the program, which began enrolling passengers in 2013 as part of efforts to make security screening more efficient.
There are PreCheck lines at more than 160 airports, but not all airlines participate. The biggest carriers flying from DIA, including United and Southwest, ask passengers for their known traveler number, assigned as part of PreCheck at the time of booking. Denver-based Frontier Airlines will begin participating in the program at the end of September.
