oakland

Has anyone tried paying the CLEAR 99$ annual renewal fees using one of the AMEx cards (eg Amex Premier Gold) that offer $100 Airline Fee Credit? Does anyone know if the CLEAR annual fees would come under one of the categories of Airline Fee Credit?

For Reference: . Incidental air travel fees must be charged on the eligible Card account by select U.S. headquartered airlines. Currently, such U.S. headquartered airlines are: American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Allegiant Air, and Virgin America.

Incidental air travel fees include charges from the airline such as baggage fees, flight-change fees, in-flight food and beverage purchases, airport lounge day-passes, pet-kennel fee, and phone reservation fees. Airline tickets, upgrades, mileage points purchases, mileage points transfer fees, gift cards, duty free purchases, and award tickets are not deemed to be incidental fees. Airlines must submit the incidental air travel fees separate from airline ticket charges and under the appropriate merchant code, industry code, or required service or product identifier for the charge to be recognized as an incidental air travel fee.

BigFlyer

I haven't - and I suspect there would be no credit as it is not an airline.

But, more importantly - why would anyone who is a Flyertalk member pay $179, when you can join Skymiles and as a base member pay only $99? See CLEAR partnership helps Delta expand efforts to ease security lines at Atlanta airport | Delta News Hub

oakland

Yea. Sorry. Mis-quoted the price. Edited post to reflect the 99$ fees. My understanding was that if they reimburse for an airport lounge, airport-based service CLEAR might get classified similarly too. The 99$ annual fee, nicely fits into the 100$ annual credit. Also, if one is applying to clearme through the Delta portal, would it not get charged as a Delta (or it's subsidiary) charge?

krazykanuck

So answering my own question, you don't need to be a US citizen or PR. I did my in person enrollment on Saturday and there's a drop down menu to select country of citizenship after they scan your ID.

Used it for the first time here at SFO today. Pretty slick. I am on a 2 month free trial to test it out and then see if I want to keep it at $79/yr.

seawolf

Yoshi212

Checked my Amex offers for my PRG card and saw Clear come up. The offer is $79 statement credit for the $179 membership fee. I've had emailed offers from Clear to come back to them, been over two years since I was a member, that were better but for a new member or someone not getting offers it isn't a bad offer.

seawolf

You get the same price with Delta.

gooselee

Actually it's $1 less with a Skymiles #.

BigFlyer

With Delta the most you pay is $99 per year for each year (less if you are Delta Elite.)

The Amex offer is a one-time credit, so you are back to full price the second year.

Zorak

But $80 less in CC spend

eeflyer

Does CLEAR count for travel for any of the providers? My fee on my Sapphire Reserve just posted as 1%.

Zorak

I doubt it. My data point is that $50 for an additional family member did not qualify for the $300 CSR travel credit.

seawolf

Boraxo

I love these questions. I mean not to be rude but why would it matter? I have already burned through my $300 in TCs and January isn't even over. Pretty much anything that has any relation to travel is counted including air, hotel and car rental charges, and it is hard to believe that anyone on FT would not have $300 per year in travel expenses. CSR is completely different from the very limited "airline fee" rebate that many cards offer which may only cover baggage fees, IFE, change fees, etc.

Note: Visited SLC a couple of weeks ago and was distressed to see "Clear coming soon" in the WN terminal but apparently already up and running at the DL terminal. So Clear sent me a tweet indicating that SLC will be up and running in all terminals before this week - which is good news if anyone can verify.

Now we just need to see an investment at OAK and I will be very happy!

Yoshi212

But if you're a family doing 3 memberships, of $99+2 other members at $50 you get the other two for $29.

Bingo