CLEAR+ Increases Family Membership Cost

How can you use a second credit in the past the family members ? Clear doesn’t let you use two credit cards for one transaction

In 2.5 years of having Clear, I think it’s only saved me a measurable amount of time over PreCheck once. There have even been times where I skipped Clear because the line was much longer than the regular Pre line. The other day at LGA, I raced my husband, who has Pre but not Clear. I ended up making it through less than 30 seconds ahead of him.

@ John -- If you have two cards with credits, you could use one card's credit for the primary membership, and a second card's credit for multiple family members.

Maybe once Clear transitions from biometrics to facial recognition, the line will move faster

Same thing. In most conditions, I find myself starting to skip Clear and going straight to TSA Pre-Check. Because it's a card benefit, sure, I'll keep it. And, if TSA Pre-Check has a back-up, sure, I'll use Clear. But, if it were not a card benefit, would I pay for it? No.

I remove my primary card, then add another card, then add a family member.

John- you have to jump through hoops to use 2 cards. I called a Clear CSR, and there is only one way to do this. A day or two before the automatic renewal date, decouple your family members from your account, so that you, only, are charged the annual fee. The fee is charged just after midnight on the renewal date. Later that day, swap out your linked payment card to a different AMEX card, then re-link your family members, and they will be charged the additional fee on the new card

Clear became a hit or miss depending on the airport and time of the day. Sometimes it is life saver, sometimes it is a pain. Add to the annoyance of these “random id check” which is not random in my opinion. When you get “randomly” selected to show iD 8 out of 10 times that is no longer random. This week I received an email to a free upgrade to Clear NextGen. Apparently it is a more secure form of identification. Will give it a try. As long as Clear is free for me through my Diamond status with Delta I will keep it.

Having two Am Ex cards with the Clear benefit and my wife and I on the same Clear account, I am going to look into separating our accounts and list my second Am Ex card as the payment for her account.

Let's see if that is easy enough to do.

Thank you! will do that upon renewal since I have the aspire and Amex plat.

If I thought it would save me time and hassle, I’d get it but frankly since the end of the pandemic I haven’t spent more than 10 minutes in PreCheck lines anywhere. And half my airports do not offer the service.

I am not going to renew my membership. The last 3 times through BNA it was notably faster going through Pre-Check. As I headed for my gate I could see the passenger I would have been behind in the Clear line still waiting for an open kiosk.

I had the same situation. It wasn’t hard to split my wife and I into two separate accounts. I used the chat feature on the website and then I just logged into her account and entered the other credit card. We each get the $189 credit.

I have had Clear for 3 years. Only once did it saved me from missing my flight. I've only used Clear about 10 times and 8 of those times, they still checked my ID. I also have 3 family members with my Clear account and none of them have ever needed to use Clear because pre-check was just fine. I will be canceling everyone's Clear account this year.

Irritating to say the least. I’m finding more and more that the TSA Pre lines are moving faster than the overcrowded Clear lines, and the ‘random’ ID checks are everyone, so not so random. I’m finding less and less value.

I fly IAD - LGA often - more than 60 flights this year. Clear takes longer at IAD and is n/a at LGA terminal B. Atlanta? Useless? Chicago? Useless.

Clear has essentially priced themselves out of the market. Adios Clear!

I use TSA Precheck line 90% of the time. Clear is always slower. Random ID checks aren’t random any more, so what’s the point? The regular line is faster. Without the credits I’ll cancel my membership (the credits are what caused their downward trajectory - the same as the lounge problem). It was worth it before.

Clear won't last long with continual price increases.

I flew from SEA the other day. General security lines were empty and yet I walked to the PreCheck checkpoint where the lines were terrible. Clear got me through those lines but there's no way I'd pay for clear when all I'd have to do is take my shoes off...

So, yesterday, I was heading to SFO A gates. I was in Clear + Pre, my GF was in regular line. She beat me through TSA by at least 5 minutes.

I'm really not sure Clear's implementation lines up with their value story anymore. This is just one data point (it's rare we get to test this very often), but I've seen a shorter line on TSA than Clear multiple times in the last 2 months.

Having the world’s busiest airport as my main airport, clear use to beneficial, but lately the digital ID line and regular tsa precheck seem to be just as efficient or better than a clear/precheck combo. $60 to $100 may not be worth it.

Prices have jumped. Clear is now charging me 119 to add a family member.