Airport Insecurity
Honolulu Airport, 1969
When you’re getting dressed after going through airport security, do you ever wonder if there was another way? When you open your carry-on to place your Ziplock-clad fluids and gels into their place on the assembly line, does it look like you’ve just overturned a Liliputian Sephora into the bin? Or do you tend to, like me, pack in such a way that causes everything to jettison from your bag the second you open the zipper? (In other words, do you suffer from ejectile dysfunction?) Until teleporters are invented, maybe there is another way.
I just saw an ad for something called Clear, a modern-looking widget that looks like a credit card. In the travel products and services world, Clear is still a youngin’ (it’s been around three years), and what it does is give you carte blanche to skip the long and tedious security process at certain airports, and take a shortcut. The Clear-only lane to victory. And your gate.
I’m dying to know if you’ve tried Clear, and if you have, what your opinion is. There are no Clear lanes in Hawaii airports, but if you’ve been to a Hawaiian airport, especially one of the smaller ones, you can kind of guess why.
Photo by Flickr–Creative Commons, by PhilipC
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