November 14, 2006
Attorneys Can Clear Airport Security without Delay
If you don’t know about Clear Registered Travelers, listen up. The service is currently available only in a limited number of airports, but if Steve Brill, the founder of American Lawyer and Court TV, has his way, it will be coming to an airport near you soon.
The service is available in Orlando, and I became a registered traveler earlier this year. I did that first by going to the web site www.flyclear.com and completing the application. To complete the registration, however, I had to visit a Clear kiosk to have my fingerprints and retina scanned. That can only be done in airports with the Clear service. At the time I became a member, Orlando was the only airport with the service. Enrollment is now open in Terminal 7 at JFK and in the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and San Jose airports, and there is more to come.
Is becoming a registered traveler worth it? You bet it is—or at least it is for me. On Wednesday, November 8, 2006, I was the featured speaker at a managing partner breakfast hosted by the ALA. The Sam Sneed restaurant in the heart of downtown Orlando doesn’t usually open for the breakfast but did so to accommodate the 52 attendees.
After the event, I headed for the airport to catch a Southwest flight back to Nashville. I had two shots—a plane departing at 10:40am and one at 3:20pm. I made it to the airport by 10:00 that morning. The security line was a mile long. There was no way I could have made the 10:40 flight going through the regular security line. However, I did make that flight with time to spare because I was a Clear Registered Traveler. Bypassing the normal security lines, I entered the Clear kiosk, put my finger on the scanner, looked into the lens that scanned my retina, and was immediately cleared to go through a special, no waiting security line for the usual body scan and carry-on x-ray. THERE WAS NO DELAY! Now that is the way to fly.
You can read more about the enterprising Steve Brill in an article by Daniel Gross in Slate titled End of the Line.
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