Originally Posted by sunrise089

I will quibble about a few things though. The POTENTIAL privacy issue is pretty clear (no pun intended) to me. My boarding pass has my name as well as my destination printed on it. That combo can suggest certain things about me, and at a minimum it tells strangers (and while I’m no great fan of the TSA I trust their agents slightly more than Clear’s) that I’m not home. Color me old fashioned but I don’t share that info with strangers without at least some sort of reason being provided. I take your point about lounge access, but I don’t use airport lounges. So for me the Clear agent is often the only person looking at my boarding pass. Everyone other touchpoint (Clear kiosk, PreCheck lane, and boarding gate) simply has me scan my pass electronically.

Originally Posted by Zorak

A lot of the time when flying DL or UA, you don't even have to scan your boarding pass; when you scan your fingerprints or your eyes, your trip info pops up on the screen for anyone within visual range to see anyway. (I forget if this happens in the case where you have to manually scan your BP.)

Originally Posted by sunrise089

I’ve had Clear for years and used them weekly pre-pandemic, and are now using them more frequently again. In addition to much larger lines than they had in the past, I’m continuously butting up against agents who insist on seeing my boarding pass before they let me scan (or even access the lane).

Originally Posted by pseudoswede

I'm always in awe just how many people reach the front of the regular Pre-Check line (and CLEAR Pre-Check line) who do not have Pre-Check on their boarding passes. This is even after they have passed multiple people shouting that this line is for Pre-Check only.

Originally Posted by naumank

I have a family member (my SO) on my Clear account. Does the family member need to have their own account to sign up for the NextGen Identity+? What's the phone number about?

Originally Posted by sunrise089

I appreciate your reply, and as I tried to note I’m certainly not ruling out just getting over my principle here. I’m not trying to present this as a black and white issue where I’m clearly in the right and Clear is being inherently unreasonable.

I will quibble about a few things though. The POTENTIAL privacy issue is pretty clear (no pun intended) to me. My boarding pass has my name as well as my destination printed on it. That combo can suggest certain things about me, and at a minimum it tells strangers (and while I’m no great fan of the TSA I trust their agents slightly more than Clear’s) that I’m not home. Color me old fashioned but I don’t share that info with strangers without at least some sort of reason being provided. I take your point about lounge access, but I don’t use airport lounges. So for me the Clear agent is often the only person looking at my boarding pass. Everyone other touchpoint (Clear kiosk, PreCheck lane, and boarding gate) simply has me scan my pass electronically.

Again, I’m not claiming there’s some enormous degree of risk here since I’m just a regular guy. But the risk is still directionally increased, and so that makes me wonder if in fact the Clear agents ARE doing their job asking for the pass, or if they’re just trying to economize on time by going off script. FWIW I flew home today and used the empty PreCheck line, but the Clear staffer in the adjacent lane did NOT ask the flyer behind me for a boarding pass, she just led them to the kiosk. So I have some data points that boarding passes have to be shown and other data that suggests they don’t. Ideally I was hoping to find someone who had experience enough to make a definitive statement one way or the other since the agents I’ve asked haven’t offered any explanation.

Originally Posted by jmw

I read an article talking this morning about a trial of TSA Pre self screening gates at Harry Reid in March. If this is widespread, I don't need Clear/Pre combo anymore.

Originally Posted by mrkymark

I let my Clear lapse.
​​​​​I pay for it using Amex Plat so I get the 189 reimbursement but just didn't feel the need to renew a few months ago.
Now I log in and it says rejoin and get 3 months free.

For those Clear experts does this mean:
A. The 189 gets charged now and I get a 15month term? Or
B. I get 3 months free and they charge the 189 three months from now?

Im thinking it's prob "A" and that would be ideal for me the get the calendar year 2023 reimbursement from Amex but definitely less useful if it is "B".

I have emailed member services but as folks can understand I kind of trust this FT community to give me the most accurate answer since they will most likely confuse this rejoin offer with the free trials.

Thanks in advance for experiences.
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Originally Posted by Zorak

What does the fine print on your offer page say? From Googling around, all the other similar trials I saw are for a free trial period, auto-renews at $189/year at the end of the trial, i.e. what you called option B.