Delta Digital ID vs Clear
Mar 27, 2024, 10:02 am
#78
Join Date: Jan 2017
Programs: Delta PM
Posts: 890
Definitely faster than Clear in ATL.
There were a couple of times where I saw people jump out of the main PreCheck line thinking "Digital ID" simply meant that they had their ID stored in their phone's wallet. Whoops.
There were a couple of times where I saw people jump out of the main PreCheck line thinking "Digital ID" simply meant that they had their ID stored in their phone's wallet. Whoops.
Mar 27, 2024, 11:02 am
#79
Join Date: Jul 2019
Programs: Delta PM, Marriott Titanium
Posts: 405
I signed up and for my flight out of ATL on Saturday it was showing on my boarding pass, when I got to the TSA pre-check lane, the agent looked at my phone and pointed me to a completely empty digital ID line (International Terminal). But my son was with me, and while he had TSA Precheck, he doesn't have digital ID. Thankfully the agent took us over to an empty station and scanned his DL, instead of forcing him to go to the end of the Precheck line, because thanks to horrific ATL traffic our flight was already boarding when we got to the airport. Made our flight by 10 minutes.
Mar 27, 2024, 12:41 pm
#80
Join Date: Mar 2023
Location: Detroit, MI
Programs: Marriot TE, Delta DM, UA Gold, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 176
Digital ID is consistently faster for me in DTW these days. The Clear line will have 2-4-6 people at a time and the D. ID line will be empty or nearly so. Even when the precheck is very busy, Digital ID is consistently faster. If my credit card didn't give me Clear for free I wouldn't need it anymore domestically.
Mar 27, 2024, 1:14 pm
#81
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Atlanta
Programs: Delta Death March, Hyatt Globalist, IHG Plat, Marriott/Hilton Gold Life
Posts: 1,547
I signed up and for my flight out of ATL on Saturday it was showing on my boarding pass, when I got to the TSA pre-check lane, the agent looked at my phone and pointed me to a completely empty digital ID line (International Terminal). But my son was with me, and while he had TSA Precheck, he doesn't have digital ID. Thankfully the agent took us over to an empty station and scanned his DL, instead of forcing him to go to the end of the Precheck line, because thanks to horrific ATL traffic our flight was already boarding when we got to the airport. Made our flight by 10 minutes.
And re: horrific traffic (outside AND inside the airport) - I posted a couple months ago that (in December) the CLEAR + Pre line was 25-30 minutes, Precheck was 15-20 minutes (yes, faster), and Digital ID was nearly empty.
Mar 28, 2024, 8:24 am
#82
Original Poster
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: ATL
Programs: Delta Skymiles
Posts: 355
Tuesday at ATL regular TSA Pre was faster than both Digital ID and Clear with TSA Pre. The guy at the front of the regular TSA Pre was a machine - doing two pax at a time. Two other agents were barely saying “next” and took advantage of their colleague’s efficiency. The Clear and D ID lines were bottlenecked for some reason.
Mar 29, 2024, 8:24 am
#83
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Washington, DC
Programs: Delta PM, Delta Reserve, Amex Plat, Bonvoy Gold, Hilton Diamond, Starbucks Gold ;)
Posts: 1,775
Digital ID is consistently faster for me in DTW these days. The Clear line will have 2-4-6 people at a time and the D. ID line will be empty or nearly so. Even when the precheck is very busy, Digital ID is consistently faster. If my credit card didn't give me Clear for free I wouldn't need it anymore domestically.
The Digital ID just works. I've used it at both LAX and JFK several times over the past two months and it's great. My only complaint is that the DL SP checkin agents at JFK never want to turn on their Digital ID screens, so even if I go to the Digital ID line to drop a bag, they always make me to SP line instead. LAX this hasn't been an issue.
Mar 29, 2024, 3:33 pm
#84
Join Date: Dec 2021
Location: New York, NY
Programs: Delta 360 and Two Million Miler, Air Canada 25k, Marriott Ambassador and Lifetime Titanium
Posts: 133
CLEAR feels useless at this point. At MIA on Wednesday, people were saying the CLEAR line was taking about 15 minutes to get through, so I went through Pre Check instead in under a minute.
Digital ID security at JFK T4 is a game changer (for now). So much faster.
Digital ID security at JFK T4 is a game changer (for now). So much faster.
Mar 30, 2024, 7:04 am
#85
Join Date: Aug 2022
Location: IND
Programs: Delta SkyMiles (DM), Marriott Bonvoy (Titanium, LTP)
Posts: 535
I wonder why IND doesn't have Clear yet, but honestly, it wouldn't help anything because the rate-limiting step is the ridiculously slow tact time of baggage inspection through the CT scanners.