A thoughtfully-written reply and many good points. Passenger experience could doubtlessly improve. I suspect that there can be a happier medium - especially for frequent flyers, who already submit to the increased screening demands of Trusted Traveller and similar programs - in terms of innovating around the "last 100m" problem. But this…
A thoughtfully-written reply and many good points. Passenger experience could doubtlessly improve.
I suspect that there can be a happier medium - especially for frequent flyers, who already submit to the increased screening demands of Trusted Traveller and similar programs - in terms of innovating around the "last 100m" problem. But this is difficult to unlock because the government/TSA control so much of it. And, as you say, there is the view that airports *want* passengers to spend more time there. But I doubt many frequent (business) flyers are doing much airport shopping in any case (at least not as a consequence of being there longer).
So, I think there is a further tweak available, and I suspect that Clear and other services like this will have more license over time to innovate here.
In any case, the point is well made that the inefficiencies of getting on airlines around security, etc, largely kill the utility of aviation on < 500mi trips.
A thoughtfully-written reply and many good points. Passenger experience could doubtlessly improve.
I suspect that there can be a happier medium - especially for frequent flyers, who already submit to the increased screening demands of Trusted Traveller and similar programs - in terms of innovating around the "last 100m" problem. But this is difficult to unlock because the government/TSA control so much of it. And, as you say, there is the view that airports *want* passengers to spend more time there. But I doubt many frequent (business) flyers are doing much airport shopping in any case (at least not as a consequence of being there longer).
So, I think there is a further tweak available, and I suspect that Clear and other services like this will have more license over time to innovate here.
In any case, the point is well made that the inefficiencies of getting on airlines around security, etc, largely kill the utility of aviation on < 500mi trips.