CLEAR could be coming to MSY

Would make sense as the new airport will have a single screening area.

Nice. This seals the deal for me.

Same thing is happening at ATL. I always use the north checkpoint pre-check for this very reason. The south checkpoint pre-check (Delta terminal) is where CLEAR processes at.

With the single checkpoint pre-check should work much better, no issues of staffing up at D buring peaks, then trying to reshuffle personnel to C when it gets busy and vice versa. That is a LOT of inefficiency.

My real concerns are on the roadway approaches and ground transportation. The consolidated rental car facility used to be a big plus for MSY, now it will be a negative experience.

Ya I haven't needed Clear here but I have no issues paying for it when the day comes that Precheck becomes clogged all the time.

As far as I can tell there is no difference between Precheck and Clear, except clear has no lines at all, but when I've watched people "processing" with the Clear worker in the line before the TSA agent, it takes about as long as how long it takes a TSA agent to check a few Precheck passengers, so it doesn't save more than a minute perhaps because then you go through security, since most of the time I'm no worse than about 10th in line at Precheck here.

However, the Feds have stated they would like to get Precheck to be the predominant form of security that passengers go through. If they ever hit that sort of critical mass then Clear may become an option.

You just don't have to hand over your ID to the agent since you verified your ID already with Clear, just your boarding pass. You then go through whatever security you're OK to go through it regular or Preboard since that's separate from Clear.

With CLEAR, you scan your fingerprints, and a CLEAR agent takes you directly to the front of the line to run through security. You even skip in front of the tsa pre people.

I've used it in Denver, San Antonio, Austin, and Vegas and that's how it worked every time

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With CLEAR, you scan your fingerprints, and a CLEAR agent takes you directly to the front of the line to run through security. You even skip in front of the tsa pre people.

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I have seen CLEAR agents run you to the front of the TSA Pre security line (checking ID and boarding pass). However, I have never seen CLEAR agents take anyone to the front of the passenger screening line (metal detector, X-ray machine). You still have to wait in that line. That line can be just as long as the first line.