Clear, the private biometric airport security service, escorts its clients to the front of the TSA lines at airports, moving them ahead of others waiting in line—and a California state senator has joined the line of people annoyed at the preference.
Sen. John Newman’s bill to ban the practice is now being considered by a state Senate committee. Nash told The Points Guy site that “I became aware of that interaction that happens right at the TSA kiosks, where that jovial Clear attendant pushes some other traveler out of the way and says, ‘Sorry, Clear customer,'” putting paying customers of the $189 a year service ahead of those who can’t or won’t pay.
The bill has support from a union of TSA officers and from the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, a union representing cabin crew of numbers of airlines. AFA president has written a letter saying the legislation “would restore equal access and treatment at the airport security checkpoint.”
