"Clear Registered Traveler program coming to Albany airport"

Monday, March 12, 2007

Clear program adds Albany airport
BY ALEXANDER COOLIDGE
The Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer


Frequent fliers enrolled in the Clear security screening process soon will
have a new airport that uses the service: Albany County Airport in upstate
New York.

Airport officials there said they would launch the program within 60 days.

In January, the Clear program was launched at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky
International Airport.

Local passengers would be able to fly to the Empire State's capital city
using the Clear screening to get through security faster both ways.

The Clear program, which costs $99.95 per year, allows fliers to submit to a
vigorous pre-screening process but then go through a shorter security line
at the airport. 

The program is in place at airports in Orlando, New York, Indianapolis,
Newark, N.J. and San Jose, Calif.

Customers sign up for the plan via the Internet at www.flyclear.com. After
signing up, customers are directed to stop at an enrollment station with
identification and to get fingerprinted and have their iris scanned. 

The customer's information is reviewed by the U.S. Transportation Security
Administration, which approves the application.

Once approved, the customer gets a security card with encrypted images of a
thumb or fingerprint or their iris. 

When going through airport security, travelers plug their card and swipe
either their fingerprint or get their eye photographed at a kiosk.

Customers still have to walk through a metal detector, and remove metal from
their pockets, and their bags are X-rayed. But Clear customers get their
own, shorter line.

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