I don’t fly very frequently, but when I do, I love using Clear. Recently got it for my wife as well and it’s just $50 to add a family member. We are always a bit late on getting to the airport, maybe not even late, but we like to be confident we make the gate on time. It really saved me a good chunk of rebooking money as we were late to the gate originally and the security lane was just out of control due to limited number of workers at the domestic erminal at SFO. I quickly added my wife to my Clear account (4 min) and we made it to the gate in 3 more minutes using Clear. That day we saved at least $300 on rebooking fees and it gave us a peace of mind.I like the mobile app and now I know when to leave home if I’m using Clear. They have a home to gate ETA feature, really helpful in planning on when to drive to the airport. I won’t lie, that sense of a VIP status going through Clear, makes me feel good and important on top of saved time. Plus all the agents are super nice.

I understand this is for travel within U.S. airports, but it’s annoying that the app doesn’t work overseas. Luckily we have a VPN service because we live overseas, but if you’re trying to login anywhere else and you don’t have a VPN, or you don’t immediately think to use it, good luck figuring out what you’re doing wrong. I simply wanted yo manage my account and update some things for my wife before her return trip from the States to Europe. I ended up spending 30 min resetting my password, deleting and redownloading the app, and googling every possible solution. I could login online, but not on the app. It would give me a general error message about my credentials, but It would’ve been more helpful to say that these services aren’t available in my region so I knew why my freshly updated login information wasn’t working. It finally clicked that I should try my VPN. It worked, and seems like such a simple no-brainer fix, but turning on your VPN isn’t always your first thought, and having to go through all that still got me worked up. After all that, I realized that I can’t even do anything for my wife, because she needs her own login for the service that I pay for and manage on her own app on her own phone. Why bother when I have TSA Pre-check that is so much simpler, and so much faster.

Update: I have again attempted to set up an account with the new updates, but still have no success. Extremely frustrating that even the newest update has not fixed whatever issues the app has been having. I’ve spoken with others that are upset with the set up as well, they too have tried multiple times to set up an account, but to no success either. It has to do with the picture of the face portion. After my initial review I received an email to “Please, please, please” contact them. I contacted them but have heard nothing back. Really upsetting. I might just be selling my single game tickets to the highest bidder and tailgating during games. Unfortunate. Also, the amount of tracking the app does is absolutely horrendous. Why does it need to know all of that info for me to watch a game…from a third party that I didn’t pay for the PSL/tickets? Do better Clear. Original post: I am PSL season ticket holder to the Raiders. We have to use this system to verify you have the vaccine. Problem is, registration doesn’t work because it won’t capture a your face to verify it against a passport or ID photo. Too bad. Now I have to go through a separate line and verify my hard copy vaccine paper. Terrible system. Which there was not a monopoly on one system, and they would allow for multiple ones. Maybe another one would actually work. If I could rate zero I would.

I’ve had Clear for a few years now and its cost has gone up and the quality of service has gone down. It no longer pays for itself in sanity or efficiency and today was the final straw. In the IAH airport I have tsa precheck AND clear and step into the clear/tsa precheck line. The clear lady processes me through and then the clear escort walks me down to the standard security line, who then confirms I’m tsa precheck and should go through the other security line. They proceed down to that line and I stand in line there to be scanned and processed to only have a new lady walk up and say “which line for you come from?” Who then points me back to the clear line to get rechecked in because the security check-in guy says “I’ve never seen him”. So I walk back to the clear lady who NOW tells me to walk all the way back to the airline counter to update my ticket with my KTN (which I have in my phone). Are you serious? Yes she was. So instead I go through standard security and that guy walks me back over to the tsa precheck line to be scanned and processed. Meanwhile, my wife and 4 children have simply walked through tsa precheck and have been sitting on the other side for 20 minutes. Clearly, CLEAR has failed in their job. Egregiously so. Membership cancelled for the whole family.