Expedited airport screening services are becoming big business, with industry leader Clear planning to launch operations in four more US airports in the coming months, Bloomberg reports.

Clear began serving New York’s Kennedy International Airport in January 2017, and plans to debut its screening lanes at New York’s LaGuardia International Airport, Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, and Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport between now and April 2017.

That will bring the total number of airports served by Clear to 22. Other US airports offering the Clear service include Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, Denver International Airport, Detroit International Airport, Houston Hobby and George Bush International, Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport, Miami International Airport, Orlando International Airport, San Antonio International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, San Jose International Airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and Washington DC’s Reagan National and Dulles airports.

Clear, a fee-based fingerprinting and iris-scan service, allows travellers to proceed directly to body and luggage screening without having to have their boarding pass or ID checked.

A majority of Clear customers also have enrolled in the US Transportation Security Administration’s PreCheck program, further speeding passage through airport security checkpoints. The service costs $179 annually.

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