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Originally Posted by Greyfriars

Strangely I have never applied or paid for this as we only travel to the USA once a year. 😕

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They issue it randomly on participating flights. There's probably some clever algorithm behind it but often very frequent fliers with no issues won't get cleared where someone on their second or third trip will.

I'm sticking with randomly assigned though, especially since they hand it out on outbound where it doesn't even apply anyway.