Originally Posted by
FlyBitcoin
The person standing in line for regular PreCheck is helped because his line was reduced by all of the people who went through Clear who got there 5 minutes before he did. They are already past security instead of still clogging the line. You would not say all those people "cut" because you didn't see them, but they made your experience better because they were not in your line when you got there.
Eh, if they are really allowing Clear people through at a 5:1 ratio to non-clear people, it's entirely possible that the non-Clear people are actually being slowed down even if overall throughput and average wait time is better.