{"id":6246,"date":"2010-05-25T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=6246"},"modified":"2016-12-16T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:46:33","slug":"will-registered-traveler-programs-live-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/will-registered-traveler-programs-live-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Will registered traveler programs live again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Joe Brancatelli<\/em><\/p>\n

Nearly a year after the CLEAR<\/strong> 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<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n

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

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