Love the show as usual. One little item. Tim seemed to dismiss what California is doing with regulations on Clear. I applaud California.
It's very true that stratification at the airport security line isn't the biggest problem in the world. However, it is emblematic of some of the things that are wrong in the America of today. I certainly…
Love the show as usual. One little item. Tim seemed to dismiss what California is doing with regulations on Clear. I applaud California.
It's very true that stratification at the airport security line isn't the biggest problem in the world. However, it is emblematic of some of the things that are wrong in the America of today. I certainly don't mind TSA pre-check. It does cost money, but it has its own lines, so, at best it's making the non-TSA lines shorter.
Clear is a whole different animal. At JFK, Clear doesn't have dedicated lines. Instead, when a Clear customer is coming through, they are escorted to the front of either a TSA pre-check or a non pre-check line, escorted in front of the people who were waiting there previously. I heard a lot of people cursing under their breath while a Clearee cut in front of them.
When the airport is busy, a non-Clearee might have to wait for two or three Clear customers before they get to go through security.
Clear and non-clear customers both pay the taxes that fund the TSA. Why should the customers of a private escort service get to go ahead of other tax payers whose tax money should be just as good as that of Clear customers. It strikes me as a form of rent-seeking--using government services to enrich a private company.
If Clear were given permission to set up their own lines with their own clearance agents, the story might be different...but it's not.
Recently, I was coming back from France and Charles DeGaulle Airport was just as busy as JFK, but there's no pre-check, and no Clear. Everyline was a line for everybody. It moved much quicker, was a lot less complicated, and no one seemed especially frustrated.
As an aside, "Clear" is the term that Scientologists use for someone who has reached Scientology nirvana and broken themselves free from negative emotions and reactions. (As you can tell from the above, I have a long way to go before I meet the Scientology definition of "clear.")
I’m out of the mainstream in the comment section with CLEAR. My Husband becomes incredibly agitated when traveling. He has not been willing to go the TSA route. We have Clear which we pay through the nose for. We really only fly once a year but it is worth every penny to get my Hubby through the airport without massive doses of anti-anxiety meds. I get the diss but I understand why it exists.
Agreed. I'm far from an equality extremist, but Clear seems to be specifically engineered to be as offensive as possible. The more places that ban it, the better.
I got sick of being approached by CLEAR sales personnel. I was "clearly" entering the TSA Pre Check line and they tried to tell me I should have both. What BS. It was easy and cheaper to get TSA Pre Check. I've had it since it was first created.
Love the show as usual. One little item. Tim seemed to dismiss what California is doing with regulations on Clear. I applaud California.
It's very true that stratification at the airport security line isn't the biggest problem in the world. However, it is emblematic of some of the things that are wrong in the America of today. I certainly don't mind TSA pre-check. It does cost money, but it has its own lines, so, at best it's making the non-TSA lines shorter.
Clear is a whole different animal. At JFK, Clear doesn't have dedicated lines. Instead, when a Clear customer is coming through, they are escorted to the front of either a TSA pre-check or a non pre-check line, escorted in front of the people who were waiting there previously. I heard a lot of people cursing under their breath while a Clearee cut in front of them.
When the airport is busy, a non-Clearee might have to wait for two or three Clear customers before they get to go through security.
Clear and non-clear customers both pay the taxes that fund the TSA. Why should the customers of a private escort service get to go ahead of other tax payers whose tax money should be just as good as that of Clear customers. It strikes me as a form of rent-seeking--using government services to enrich a private company.
If Clear were given permission to set up their own lines with their own clearance agents, the story might be different...but it's not.
Recently, I was coming back from France and Charles DeGaulle Airport was just as busy as JFK, but there's no pre-check, and no Clear. Everyline was a line for everybody. It moved much quicker, was a lot less complicated, and no one seemed especially frustrated.
As an aside, "Clear" is the term that Scientologists use for someone who has reached Scientology nirvana and broken themselves free from negative emotions and reactions. (As you can tell from the above, I have a long way to go before I meet the Scientology definition of "clear.")
I’m out of the mainstream in the comment section with CLEAR. My Husband becomes incredibly agitated when traveling. He has not been willing to go the TSA route. We have Clear which we pay through the nose for. We really only fly once a year but it is worth every penny to get my Hubby through the airport without massive doses of anti-anxiety meds. I get the diss but I understand why it exists.
Agreed. I'm far from an equality extremist, but Clear seems to be specifically engineered to be as offensive as possible. The more places that ban it, the better.
Nice point on the use of Clear by Scientologists.
I got sick of being approached by CLEAR sales personnel. I was "clearly" entering the TSA Pre Check line and they tried to tell me I should have both. What BS. It was easy and cheaper to get TSA Pre Check. I've had it since it was first created.