The Consolidated CLEAR Information Thread (Locations, Promotions, Value)
Nov 7, 2018, 11:44 am
#691
Join Date: Dec 2016
Posts: 578
I know this has been said multiple times upthread, but the random additional ID checks are getting old fast. A large part of the value for this service is the ability to put away everything before reaching the checkpoints so that one can just walk right through.
Nov 7, 2018, 11:47 am
#692
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: NorCal - 1K 2MM
Posts: 2,089
I wonder if after one of these checks, a notation is made somewhere that inhibits future requests, so it's a one-time annoyance only? My wife and I have each been hit once (separately) but never again. Are there FT'ers that have already been hit multiple times?
Nov 7, 2018, 1:29 pm
#693
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: SJC
Programs: AA, AS, Marriott
Posts: 6,068
Yes, this has happened to be multiple times at SJC with a full ID check plus mobile boarding pass scan. At a bare minimum, the CLEAR representative absconds with my phone to flash the screen to the TDC while I'm standing at a far enough distance to make the cursory mobile boarding pass check useless.
Other FTers criticized me earlier on this thread, questioning whether or not it really takes much time to get out my ID and show the phone. While it doesn't, I also prefer to have everything packed away before reaching the security checkpoint. CLEAR still has the advantage at airports where the TDC backs up - Denver comes to mind, but I've never waited more than a minute for the TDC in the Precheck line at SJC.
Other FTers criticized me earlier on this thread, questioning whether or not it really takes much time to get out my ID and show the phone. While it doesn't, I also prefer to have everything packed away before reaching the security checkpoint. CLEAR still has the advantage at airports where the TDC backs up - Denver comes to mind, but I've never waited more than a minute for the TDC in the Precheck line at SJC.
Nov 7, 2018, 1:37 pm
#694
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: NorCal - 1K 2MM
Posts: 2,089
SJC is my home field so it looks like I've just been lucky with only one such experience thus far.
Nov 21, 2018, 9:40 am
#697
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Dar-e-Salam
Posts: 38
Nov 24, 2018, 12:06 pm
#700
Moderator: Travel Safety/Security, Travel Tools, California, Los Angeles; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: LAX
Programs: oneword Emerald
Posts: 20,653
I merged your question into the encyclopaedic CLEAR thread.
TWA884
Travel Safety/Security co-moderator
Nov 30, 2018, 10:38 am
#702
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: SFO
Programs: AS, UA, WN, IHG Diamond Elite, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Gold, CET 7*
Posts: 3,301
Data point: I signed up for Clear for the first time a few weeks ago at LAX with a 30 day free trial. As I already have Pre-Check (and haven't experienced issues with it here @ SFO), I decided to cancel the membership before being billed next week. There were a few options to click for reasons of cancellation, I clicked already a Pre-Check member and a pop-up offer of $99 instead of the $179 appeared, which I decided to accept. Confirmation email was received a couple of minutes later and it confirms that this will be my new annual renewal rate as well.
Nov 30, 2018, 11:26 am
#703
Moderator: Hyatt; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: WAS
Programs: :rolleyes:, DL DM, Mlife Plat, Caesars Diam, Marriott Tit, UA Gold, Hyatt Glob, invol FT beta tester
Posts: 18,947
Data point: I signed up for Clear for the first time a few weeks ago at LAX with a 30 day free trial. As I already have Pre-Check (and haven't experienced issues with it here @ SFO), I decided to cancel the membership before being billed next week. There were a few options to click for reasons of cancellation, I clicked already a Pre-Check member and a pop-up offer of $99 instead of the $179 appeared, which I decided to accept. Confirmation email was received a couple of minutes later and it confirms that this will be my new annual renewal rate as well.
The discounted $99 rate is available to anyone who joins Delta Skymiles (no status required, even general members)https://www.clearme.com/partner/delta
Nov 30, 2018, 12:40 pm
#704
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: SFO
Programs: AS, UA, WN, IHG Diamond Elite, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton Gold, CET 7*
Posts: 3,301
Reminder to everyone that FT thread wikis occasionally contain useful info The discounted $99 rate is available to anyone who joins Delta Skymiles (no status required, even general members)
https://www.clearme.com/partner/delta
The discounted $99 rate is available to anyone who joins Delta Skymiles (no status required, even general members)https://www.clearme.com/partner/delta
Nov 30, 2018, 3:27 pm
#705
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: FIND ME ON TWITTER FOR THE LATEST
Posts: 27,730
Used it at T4 last week. And even though we were traveling in SQ suites to FRA and we're going to be jammed through security by SQ check-in agent, he was doubly glad we were Clear and Precheck members as-- in some way I still don't fully get-- enabled him to jam us through even more violently . (He opened a closed security point for us, etc., etc.)
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