Clear for the Win

Apparently people who travel from Ft. Lauderdale airport in the middle of the day don’t have Clear. I went to the airport with plenty of time to spare today. I hear that Fridays can be bad because of cruise ships. I agree most things can be bad because of cruise ships.

I was flying Delta so I was in terminal 2. My uber was driver was doing an excellent job avoiding the many law enforcement vehicles on the airport property. Don’t know what that was about, but there were seriously like 30 different cop cars between terminal 1 and 2. So she drops me off at door 221. (That’s a high numbered door. I wonder how many doors there are at FLL?)

I walk in and see this giant line snaking through the whole terminal for security. I walk past that to the Clear plus line. Not one person in the line and five clear agents. Takes less than a minute to scan my face and get escorted to the dedicated TSA agent who was just waiting for me. That takes ten seconds and I walked down this empty cattle chute. That is where I took this photo. There was one guy walking up the cattle chute way in front of me. And to my right was a giant line of people waiting to get through the x-ray security.

There was a totally dedicated Clear security machine and team and just the one guy in front of me. Those other people had waited in a giant line to get through tsa and then the line was very backed up for them to go through screening, even if they had pre- check.

I was never more glad to have tsa- pre check as well as Clear in my life. My picture does not really show how many hundreds and hundreds of people were waiting and I was one of two. If you fly more than twice a year, get Clear. It’s worth it. (You know I am not paid to promote any products on purpose so if I say it’s good I mean it and if I say it’s bad, then it was for me.)