Clear opens Registered Traveler lanes at Atlanta’s airport

Verified Identity Pass’s Clear Registered Traveler program, which debuted last month at Boston Logan’s Terminal A (Delta), has now cut the ribbon on express security lanes at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, one of the nation’s largest and busiest airports. The Clear program’s biometric ID cards, issued to members for a $100 annual fee and after a background check, are now accepted at 20 airports (although not at all terminals in some of them). Clear CEO Steven Brill said the company expects Atlanta will be the busiest location yet for the program, since the airport handles some 89 million passengers a year. Clear has opened three enrollment centers at the airport where passengers can apply for their biometric IDs. The company also has an enrollment center at the Grand Hyatt Regency on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta. For more details, go to www.flyclear.com . The company also said it has completed a “re-engineering” of its ID verification kiosks – which scan the biometric cards – so that the ID is now read in half the time as before – “making the overall process in the Clear lane an average of 25 percent faster to reach the security checkpoint,” the company said. The Clear program currently has more than 200,000 registered members.