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Old Jun 20, 2016, 6:19 pm
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List of Airports and Checkpoint Locations: https://clearme.com/where-we-are

ATL - Main and South Checkpoints
AUS - Checkpoint 1
BWI - Checkpoint B/C/D/and E
CLE - Pre-Check Entrance (Center of Terminal)
DAL - Main Checkpoint
DCA - Terminal A: Checkpoint; Terminal B/C: South/North/Center Checkpoints
DEN - North and South Chekpoint
DFW - E16 Security Checkpoint
DTW - McNamara and North Terminal Checkpoints
HOU - Main Checkpoint
HPN - Main Checkpoint
IAD - Main Terminal Checkpoint
IAH - Terminal A South Checkpoint
JFK - T4 Sky Priority/Pre-Check
LAS - T1: A/B/C/D Checkpoints; T3: E Checkpoint
LAX - T2/T3/T4/T6/T7 Checkpoints only
LGA - Terminal A/C/and D checkpoints only
MCO - East and West Checkpoints
MIA - Concourse E and H checkpoints only
MSP - T1 North and South Checkpoint
SAT - Terminal A and B Checkpoints
SEA - Checkpoints 2/3/4/and 5
SFO - T1: Checkpoints B and C; T2: Checkpoint; T3 Checkpoints F1,F2, and F3; International Terminal: Checkpoints A and G
SJC - Terminal A and B Checkpoints
SLC - T2 Checkpoint only



Registration link: https://delta.clearme.com/

Once registered to complete enrollment bring one state approved ID to the enrollment center. You will need a valid, unamended US passport or passport card, US-issued Permanent Resident Card, a valid US driver's license, state-issued photo ID card, or a military ID. Once your identity is verified, they will scan your finger prints and get a picture of your iris.

This process takes about 5-7 minutes and can be done before a flight.

Costs:
  • Diamond Medallion® members: Complimentary
  • Platinum, Gold and Silver Medallion members: $109 per year ($79 for those signed up before April 2019)
  • Delta AMEX primary card holders: $109 per year ($79 for those signed up before April 2019)
  • General SkyMiles Members: $119 per year ($99 for those signed up before April 2019)

Keep in mind Family add-on fee is just $50

You may also wish to peruse this thread in the Trusted Travelers forum: Is CLEAR worth $179 a year? (it goes beyond the question in the title, the answer to which is obviously "no" given the above pricing )

Former CLEAR members:

Originally Posted by pseudoswede
Give them a call to reactivate and give them your SkyMiles number. You shouldn't have to redo the biometrics.

https://clearme.com/faq -> click on "Former CLEAR Members"
From their FAQ: "We will honor any time that you have remaining on your CLEAR account. This time will be credited to you once you have reactivated your account."

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Old Nov 9, 2018, 10:18 am
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Originally Posted by mnredfox


Monday’s around 7am the Clear line at Denver is insane! Then again PC line is about 5x worse. The dirty secret is skip both and go to the premium line. Most Monday’s Denver makes all lanes PC.
Problem with using the premium line is I hate taking off my shoes and at a lot of airports now Ipads have to come out of bags. At LAS Sunday the precheck line was pretty long as well but Clear saved me some time, problem at LAS is they don't have a premium line, it's only first class not Sky Priority.

Clear is reminding me of what precheck used to be when it was restricted to only to those who had a TTN or had status.

I wish they would just stop giving away precheck at Random and limit it to those with a TTN. Not only would the lines be shorter they would move a lot faster since you wouldn't have to deal with the clueless flyers holding up the line.
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Old Nov 9, 2018, 10:42 am
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Originally Posted by gooselee
What was the outcome of this? I also just made DM and my CLEAR profile is still showing a $79 renewal fee coming up.
Did you try going through this page again?

https://www.clearme.com/partner/delta/

(I haven't been in this situation - just trying to help)
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Old Nov 9, 2018, 1:21 pm
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Originally Posted by josephstern
Did you try going through this page again?

https://www.clearme.com/partner/delta/

(I haven't been in this situation - just trying to help)
I thought about that but even using the same email, it didn't seem like it was linking back to my existing account (all the language was indicative of a new sign-up), so I didn't finish with it.

I sent an email to CLEAR and will report back what they say.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 6:20 am
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CLEAR ME always has issues with my biometrics and that has caused no little problem when flying out of CLEAR ME airports.

I just came in from flying all night SCL-ATL and went to the B lounge to update my biometrics so no problems next week at DC forward.

The CLEAR ME person in B just now said they only do enrollments here. That is not true because I have updated my biometrics here before.

She says let DCA update me but then that defeats the purpose of getting in the CLEAR ME lane at DCA.

I am only home for 36 hours and I doubt it is worth coming back to B Tuesday morning (OKC-ATL-DCA) to see if a different CLEAR ME agent will help.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 8:44 am
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Originally Posted by Xeno
She says let DCA update me but then that defeats the purpose of getting in the CLEAR ME lane at DCA.
I don't quite follow. While it would have been nice if you could have done this during your layover, why couldn't you update them at DCA and then immediately use it? It will take a tiny bit of extra time but then you'll be set going forward.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 9:33 am
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I typically find that the regular TSA Pre check line is faster than the CLEAR line, although CLEAR is pretty cool! On a recent flight, the TSA Pre line was pretty long, and CLEAR saved me 20 minutes or so, so thanks Delta!
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 12:52 pm
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Originally Posted by MarkP24
I typically find that the regular TSA Pre check line is faster than the CLEAR line
That statement needs context, as it's untrue everywhere I've used it.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 1:51 pm
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Originally Posted by Zorak
I don't quite follow. While it would have been nice if you could have done this during your layover, why couldn't you update them at DCA and then immediately use it? It will take a tiny bit of extra time but then you'll be set going forward.
My point of reference is that when CLEAR cannot confirm my biometrics that I would most often have been better to just go straight Pre-Check.

I have not flown out of DCA in years but I assume it is a TSA nightmare and having to essentially register CLEAR before I can get to the Pre-Check line seems not a good way to defeat the purpose of CLEAR.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 2:06 pm
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Originally Posted by Xeno
My point of reference is that when CLEAR cannot confirm my biometrics that I would most often have been better to just go straight Pre-Check.

I have not flown out of DCA in years but I assume it is a TSA nightmare and having to essentially register CLEAR before I can get to the Pre-Check line seems not a good way to defeat the purpose of CLEAR.
If you look at this one trip in isolation, that seems correct. But my point was, if you take a *small* time hit on this trip, you will still then be escorted to the front of the Pre line immediately afterwards, plus you will then be better placed for subsequent trips where CLEAR is available.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 2:09 pm
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I can confidently say there hasn't been a single time where CLEAR has cost me more time than the general Pre lane.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 2:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Xeno
My point of reference is that when CLEAR cannot confirm my biometrics that I would most often have been better to just go straight Pre-Check.
This is my experience on about 50% of my trips; @LAX in particular which seems to do a great job with precheck lines. Clear seems to have a terrible time reading my fingerprints (global entry OTOH never has a problem with my fingers). I’ve gotten annoyed enough with clear agents breaking out hand cream that now I just insist to go straight to eyes. But direct to precheck would be faster on about half my trips.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 2:57 pm
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Originally Posted by HeadInTheClouds
Clear seems to have a terrible time reading my fingerprints
Maybe you should re-enroll your fingerprints? IME, the kiosks have never been able to do a successful retinal scan for me, but fingerprints are 100% and pretty instantaneously at that.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 3:15 pm
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Originally Posted by kennycrudup
That statement needs context, as it's untrue everywhere I've used it.
CLEAR is fast, as it does ready my fingerprints quickly, and its lines are relatively short, but in my experience it's no faster than TSA Pre Check (and the fact that you need a human to verify the info.... may take even more time).

A recent DP at JFK is my wife went through TSA Pre and I went through CLEAR and she beat me by a few minutes.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 3:16 pm
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Originally Posted by kennycrudup
Maybe you should re-enroll your fingerprints? IME, the kiosks have never been able to do a successful retinal scan for me, but fingerprints are 100% and pretty instantaneously at that.
Good suggestion. My last few times once it finally read my fingers, it gave me a “member not found” message. That’s what finally pushed me to insist on eyes, which work fine for me. But that’s usually still slower than just showing my DL if there is no line.
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Old Feb 24, 2019, 3:19 pm
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Originally Posted by MarkP24
and the fact that you need a human to verify the info ...
That's what the CLEAR staff is for; I hand them my phone and enter the PC line and the CLEAR agent walks my phone over to the TDC who approves it (w/o even seeing me face-to-face most of the time, so that tells you how much of a joke that is) then the CLEAR agent returns my phone to me.
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