Privatizing Registered Traveler smart card issuance: Is it a CLEAR Way to Go?
By Dee Ann Kuhn
Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications
There’s nothing more appealing to frequent fliers than a line that stretches less than a corridor’s length for security check-in. Add to the mix an opportunity to avoid a secondary security sweep and, chances are, your day just got a whole lot better. This utopia became a reality for a select group of travelers – 10,000 to be exact – when in 2004, the Transportation Security Administration, under a directive from its parent, the Department of Homeland Security, launched its Registered Traveler pilot program.
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