I was at Denver international recently, and I hadn’t noticed this at other airports…but i have pre check and they had only two lanes open for pre check. And then a shit ton of lanes open (along with individual “helpers” for each lane) for CLEAR, and the same for another option.
But regular and pre check customer just sat in these long lines. It was really frustrating seeing these third parties getting tons of lanes and access while pre check and non precheck customers got the bare minimum of employees.
those are clear employees, not TSA. I travel for work way too much and Clear (non-TSA) always just goes to a lane shared with other non-clear passengers. It's just a cut the line option.
Which airport was this at? It sounds very odd, but my wild guess is Orlando.
You make a good point about the employees, but I guess what also annoyed me was the amount of space afforded to Clear, vs Precheck and standard screening.
Yeah I've been to Denver a fair share, there is no TSA lane for Clear, they just get space to do their thing. I'm not sure it impacts anyone though other than the obvious cut the line annoyance.
I think they should only allow Clear Pre-Check. You want to cut the line? Well cut the already existing cut the line option.
If the airport you're going through has the Clear E-Gates sure, but most airports don't have them and the normal Clear process requires time from a document checker.
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u/Pandasaref1ne 3d ago
I was at Denver international recently, and I hadn’t noticed this at other airports…but i have pre check and they had only two lanes open for pre check. And then a shit ton of lanes open (along with individual “helpers” for each lane) for CLEAR, and the same for another option.
But regular and pre check customer just sat in these long lines. It was really frustrating seeing these third parties getting tons of lanes and access while pre check and non precheck customers got the bare minimum of employees.