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TSA is just a political instrument. If you get TSA pre-check, you can skip most of the theatrics. But wait, now they also have a thing called "CLEAR"[1], becau
by sombremesa 7y ago
TSA is just a political instrument. If you get TSA pre-check, you can skip most of the theatrics.
But wait, now they also have a thing called "CLEAR"[1], because I guess they didn't make enough money from pre-check. Making matters worse, it's a private company!
[1] https://www.clearme.com/ https://www.clearme.com/
- jsjohnst 7y agoCLEAR is a third party company and in no way replaces TSA. I have both Pre-check and CLEAR, I still must go through TSA, I just don’t have to stand in a long identity document verification line.
- sombremesa 7y agoSince I never said that CLEAR replaces TSA, I'm not sure what you're on about. That being said, I'm pretty sure CLEAR includes TSA pre-check in practice, even though they seem to vehemently deny this in theory.
- jsjohnst 7y ago> because I guess they didn't make enough money from pre-check. You said that, but then later added the “private company” part after I pointed it out, so that’s what I’m “on about”. > I'm pretty sure CLEAR includes TSA pre-check in practice Nope, if you don’t have pre-check (either the actual membership or the airline sponsored version), you have to go through the standard TSA line. No exceptions. The only benefit to CLEAR is jumping the ID inspection line, nothing after the initial officer changes. Anything else you want to be proven wrong about so you can then berate me after editing your post?
- jjeaff 7y agoMaybe the point of TSA is to just make it so horrible that eventually everyone who wants to travel will get pre-check. Because legislation requiring extensive background checks and keeping details like photos and fingerprints of every person in America that wants to fly would be more difficult to get passed. So they just make it "optional".