re: Next up on California’s fight for equality…banning Clear, which lets you skip TSA lines

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Every time I use Clear I look upon the poors as I am escorted to the front of the line and I scoff and say, “Look here peasants waiting in line, I am better than you.”

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1/2 the time TSA PreCheck is faster than Clear, even if you have TSA Clear.. At least that is the case at JFK, LaGuardia, LAX, MIA and MSY for about the last year. IAD is worse than those. SFO Clear TSA is usually much faster.

The lines for CLEAR are longer and more inconvenient than the standard TSA PreCheck line. Even though I have both CLEAR and TSA PreCheck I go to the TSA PreCheck line almost exclusively for the last year.

Typical CLEAR

- Pass by 3-4 Clear employees trying to sign people up
- Enter the line
- Wait 5-10 minutes because only two employees are scanning passengers
- Wait for the people in front of me (that probably just signed up) to struggle with machine reader
- Wait for guide to work at least two machines
- Eye scan takes at least 2-3 times (move closer, move further away)
- Open my phone airline app and scan boarding pass
- Boarding pass awkwardly won’t fit in scan area and doesn't scan. Adjust brightness and try again
- Get randomly ID checked for the 10 out of the last 12 times I’ve flown
- Give agent my ID
- Get annoyed for not going to regular TSA PreCheck/regret not doing TSA Precheck line
- Wait on agent to get second group scanned, so they can bring us together

Typical TSA PreCheck

- Enter the line, wait 30 seconds - 2 minutes
- Scan your ID (most airports no longer need to show boarding pass)
- Wait on a group of Clear to go in front of me.
- look back at Clear line to see how many people are still in line that were in line when I decided to go TSA PreCheck instead