Press Release

 

AUGUST 20

Clear® Airport Fast Pass Sign-Ups in San Francisco Break Record
1,000 Join in First 30 Hours

 

NEW YORK, Clear®, the nation's fast pass for airport security, announced today that it took only 30 hours for 1,000 fliers to sign up at flyclear.com following the official opening of enrollment at San Francisco International Airport. Enrollment began at SFO on August 14 with a mid-morning ceremony and press conference led by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.

 

"This pace breaks all of our records," said Allison Beer, Clear senior vice president for corporate development. "We knew there was a great deal of interest in the Bay Area, but this beats even our expectations."

 

Clear operates five enrollment stations in the Bay Area: two at San Francisco Airport, two at San José Airport and one at the Hyatt Embarcadero.

"We're delighted by the rapid growth of the program in the Bay Area, and we're working round-the-clock to bring more kiosks onsite to companies to make enrollment more convenient," said Steven Brill, founder and CEO of Clear. "The Mayor, Airport Director John Martin and their staffs have been extremely enthusiastic about bringing Clear to San Francisco," Brill noted. "I guess their enthusiasm is contagious."

 

"The network effect we've always envisioned – in which enrollment accelerates everywhere because the Clear card becomes so much more useful as more airports join the network – is now happening," Beer concluded. "Enrollments at every single one of our locations were up last week following the San Francisco launch."

 

Clear has now enrolled over 59,000 travelers nationwide. It provides members with a biometric identity card that allows them expedited access through airport security checkpoints for an annual fee of $99.95, once they are pre-screened and approved by the Transportation Security Administration. Applicants start their membership at flyclear.com and complete the process in person at an enrollment center where their biometrics (fingerprints and iris images) are captured.

 

Other airports expected to launch RT programs this fall include Washington, DC (Reagan and Dulles), Denver, and Atlanta, all of whom have issued or, in the case of Atlanta, are about to issue Requests for Proposals. Every airport that has selected a provider in an open, competitive process has chosen Clear.

 

About Clear

Verified Identity Pass's Clear program is the largest registered traveler program operating at U.S. airports. Clear has been operational since July 19, 2005 and has over 59,000 members. Clear lanes are currently open at Albany, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Little Rock, New York JFK, Newark, Orlando and San José. Clear will launch its lanes at Westchester (NY) County Airport this week and at LaGuardia and San Francisco in September. Clear's verification kiosk with shoe scanning technology, co-developed with Verified Identity Pass's partner GE, will allow members, in most instances, to keep their shoes on as they pass through the Clear lanes at the security checkpoint. For more information, please visit: flyclear.com