TSA announces that it will signal certain passengers for additional screening

Travelers with clear subscriptions will have to make an additional step.


Before I throw, I throw on your vacation destination, there is always an obstacle: Airport safety . If you are lucky, you have met a short line and surrounded by travelers sharing the same familiar ideas with the appropriate protocol. But a blow of bad luck can mean that you are stuck the hours of waiting with uncommon leaflets. Of course, this never helps you when you are reported by a member of the Security Administration Transportation (TSA). Most people are arrested due to a parasitic bottle of water or an oversized shampoo container, but there are other reasons why the TSA can tear you off the line - and now the agents have again Another reason to select certain passengers. Read the rest to find out why the TSA accelerates projections at the country's airports.

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Travelers can pay clearly to enter a separate security line.

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There are a few different options with regard to safety safety time, including the TSA, Precheck option, as well as Clear, which belongs to a private company.

For $ 189 per year, this last option allows you to Skip the safety line completely , as opposed to entering a shorter line via TSA Precheck. When entering the separate clear line, travelers' identities are checked in a kiosk using biometric data. After that, they are then escorted at the front of the security line by a clear agent.

Generally delete the screening process and does not require passengers to remove a formal identity document, but this is about to change.

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The TSA began to make changes after a security incident.

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According The Washington Post , The TSA recently sent a letter to Clear and the airports that offer service, informing them that "a growing number Clear members "will be reported and required to present identification to the TSA officers.

After a security incident in July 2022, the TSA began to check the identifiers of clear members at random, but now more customers will be assigned. TSA has not provided details on the security incident, but Clear said to Wapo That it was "the result of a human error that the company immediately approached".

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TSA said this step is vital for everyone's safety.

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TSA said Wapo It is important to ask lighter identity members for the general security of the aeronautical system. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"TSA is responsible for ensuring that all systems and programs, including those provided by private companies, meet the required standards and will take the necessary measures to ensure that security needs are met," said the agency in a press release. "A precise and reliable verification of the identity of the passengers is fundamental to the safety of aviation and effective TSA screening."

Clear also said that he "will continue to offer the superior and sure experience that travelers know, love and depend".

Better life contacted both the TSA and Clear to comment on the modifications, and will update the story during the writing.

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Clear members already feel the effects.

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Although your ID is at hand is second nature for the majority of travelers, Wapo spoke with a few clear members who declared that the policy was beating the goal of paying for the service.

"Now, almost every time I travel, I am asked for an additional validation. It drives me crazy," Taylor Poindexter , a clear member who previously verified his identity in a clear kiosk without problem, said at the exit.

Congressman Bennie G. Thompson Said that security "must always be essential", even if travelers do not want to take too much time at the control points.

"It is clear that the ASD should act to fill this security gap," he said, by Wapo .

In response, a spokesperson for Clear said that there was not necessarily a "gap" to fill, the maintenance of this Clear "has an extraordinary security assessment".


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