Press Release

 

April 20, 2006
Verified Identity Pass CEO Praises TSA's Registered Traveler Go-Ahead

 

Steven Brill, CEO of Verified Identity Pass, praised Transportation Security Administration head Kip Hawley's "steadfast leadership" in announcing various provisions today that will enable the Registered Traveler program to proceed on schedule for a national roll out in June.

 

Steven Brill, the founder and CEO of Verified Identity Pass, which operates the Clear Registered Traveler program, today praised Transportation Security Administration head Kip Hawley's "steadfast leadership" in announcing various provisions today that will enable the Registered Traveler program to proceed on schedule for a national roll out in June.

 

"Just as he did when he directed the 'Go Teams' that enabled the newly-born TSA to deploy screeners on time and ahead of all press expectations in 2002, Mr. Hawley has today shown that he means what he says when it comes to creating the platform for allowing the registered traveler program that has launched so successfully in Orlando to go nationwide, beginning this June," Brill said. "With today's announcement of a clear promise of an expedited and more convenient checkpoint experience and a basic business model allowing private sector providers to make business arrangements with individual airports and air carriers, he has successfully continued the process of giving airports and air carriers the guidance they need to launch this common sense, security-enhancing and hassle-eliminating program. And he has also continued the process of assuring that all programs - ours and those of any competitors - will be interoperable, which means this will be a robustly competitive industry that competes on customer service, price and privacy protections."

 

"This will definitely make it possible for us to launch enrollment by June or maybe earlier at San Jose, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati, with whom we already have agreements, plus continue our program in Orlando," Brill added. "And we expect to be in a position with agreements and plans in hand to launch in at least eight more airports this summer and fall, with more to follow by the end of the year and beginning into the first quarter of 2007."

 

About Verified Identity Pass and Clear
Verified ID was founded in 2003 by journalist and entrepreneur Steven Brill. Clear is the first privately run registered traveler program operating at a U.S. airport. Clear has been operational since July 19, 2005, at Orlando International Airport and today has over 20,000 members at that airport.

Clear has been selected by Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport and Indianapolis International Airport, to begin operations there upon approval from TSA expected this summer. Verified ID has an agreement with Toronto Pearson International Airport to operate a Canadian Program, working with Canadian authorities. In February, General Electric made a $16 million investment to become a partner in Verified Identity Pass. For more information, please visit www.verifiedidpass.com and www.FlyClear.com.