Registered Traveler starts at JFK Airport
A long-delayed program aimed at speeding trusted travelers through airport security took a small but dramatic step Tuesday when it opened at one terminal in New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
The opening marks the official launch of Registered Traveler beyond Orlando International Airport, which since July 2005 has run the only airport-sponsored program to put airline travelers at the front of security lines if they pay about $100 a year and pass a background check.
Many airlines give first-class and other preferred passengers their own line leading to security checkpoints. Registered Traveler opens such privileges to a potentially much wider market.
“People have been clamoring for this for years,” said Caleb Tiller of the National Business Travel Association. “It’s available to anybody. Airline programs are really limited to passengers carrying a certain class of ticket or a certain mileage status.”
Indianapolis International Airport plans to start a Registered Traveler program Thursday. Airports in San Jose, Calif., and Cincinnati are scheduled to join next week, said Steven Brill, whose Manhattan company, Verified Identity Pass, will manage the programs.
Other airports are likely to follow when they see Registered Traveler grow, Brill said. “The next five airports are infinitely easier than the first five, and the five after that are a cakewalk,” he said.
Some travelers are skeptical. “I’m very doubtful it will expand,” Patrick Richmond said Tuesday as he bypassed Orlando’s regular 20-minute security line for the Registered Traveler “line” that had two other passengers. “The cost seems enormous.”
Orlando has four $200,000 machines — two at each checkpoint — that read fingerprint-embedded ID cards to verify the identities of people in the program and that check their shoes for weapons. The ShoeScanner machines aim to spare passengers from having to take off their shoes when going through security.
Indianapolis and San Jose will have six each, and there will be two at Cincinnati and at Kennedy’s Terminal 7, which British Airways owns.
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