USA Airports are going to be advanced for better managements

It is early days, so even RTs must for the time being share with the common herd the routine indignities of juggling shoes, jackets, toiletries and laptops as they head for the scanners.

For now, the practical benefit of the RT card appears to be as a license to queue-jump. “Basically it puts you at the head of the line,” says Cindy Rosenthal of VIP, which offers RT cards under the Clear brand. “But we don’t want to use that term.”

The idea for Clear and other emerging RT brands was spawned by the perceived need for tighter airport security following the September 11 2001 attacks on the US. The homeland security department, created five years ago, decided to bring the private sector into efforts to break the emerging security logjams at US airports.

Private companies would not only take on the role of running RT programmed, in co-operation with homeland security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA); they would also provide the investment for developing more sophisticated airport security technologies