Registered Traveler provider Clear today announced an agreement with MasterCard to offer corporate and consumer cardholders preferred pricing on memberships to its security-screening program.
The deal is an umbrella agreement that requires MasterCard issuing banks to sign on, which is expected to come shortly, Clear founder and CEO Steven Brill said. Once issuing banks come on board, Brill said cardholders likely would see different flavors of preferred pricing from various bank issuers.
As such, Brill said the deal would not necessarily mimic an agreement with American Express that went into effect in November, which extended the Clear membership period by two months when corporate cardholders purchased the $99.95 Clear membership
(BTNonline, Nov. 6).
Meanwhile, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority today said it authorized a deal to launch Clear lanes at Ronald Reagan Washington National and Washington Dulles International airports. The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners this week also approved Clear to operate a security lane at Oakland International Airport.