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They fixed that. Now you can fly without taking your laptop out, or taking your shoes and belt off. You just have to give them fingerprints, a facial scan and an in-person interview. They give you a little card. It's nifty.

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And the most important part: pay them an annual subscription fee.

Sincerely,

PreCheck Premium with Clear Plus Extra customer

there's nothing socially repressive about having airline travel segregated into classes of passengers at all, nope, this is completely normal /s

I go through the regular TSA line out of solidarity and protest. Fuck the security theater.

My response was intended as sarcasm. But eventually, I don't think it will be a two-tiered system. You simply won't be allowed to fly without what is currently required for precheck.

And fwiw, I don't think the strong argument against precheck has to do with social class... it's not terribly expensive, and anyone can do it. It's just a further invasion of privacy.

Precheck is super cheap, it's like less than $100 once per 5 years. Yes, it is an invasion of privacy, but I suspect the government already has all that data anyway many times over.

Totally with you. Pre-check is an ugly band-aid on a flawed system.

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