Will registered traveler programs live again?

By Joe Brancatelli

Nearly a year after the CLEAR registered traveler program unceremoniously folded and promptly took its two smaller competitors down with it, there may be new life for security line-cut programs. The somewhat ill-defined bones of CLEAR were purchased out of bankruptcy earlier this month by a new firm that claims it is about to relaunch the plan. The company, Alclear, paid about $5.9 million for the assets of CLEAR and the firm’s chief executive promises to begin enrolling new members this summer. Caryn Seidman-Becker also says that frequent flyers who joined the old CLEAR program will have their original membership terms honored.

The problem? CLEAR has no remaining airport locations and no contracts to re-open them. And one former CLEAR location, Indianapolis Airport, has just hired a previously unknown firm called iQueue to relaunch a registered traveler program there. IQueue, which shares a relationship with and some management of the old FLO registered traveler program, is already taking pre-enrollments, but hasn’t announced a date for reopening in Indianapolis.

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