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How to Save Time and Bypass Long Lines at the Airport
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Make it a profit center, charge $500 for the card. It's not like the common traveler can afford the luxury or exclusivity. Personally everyone should be treated the same, no matter how much money they can afford. It's about security, not who's palm you can grease.
If everyone should be treated the same, then make it FREE, not more expensive. And even the curent $100 is better than your proposed $500.
It's security theater and security theater bypass.
I have a Global Entry card and I have to say that my $100 was well spent. It helps a little traveling in the US, but when one is returning from a long overseas flight, it can save an hour of waiting in customs when you are dead tired. I am slightly disabled and this takes a lot off my traveling plate.
Barring access to a government official is illegal. Remember the lines are run as a collaboration between the airlines and the airport, not the TSA. If I am running late, I'll use the first class line, without regard to the ticket I am holding. I have yet to be questioned, and if they did, just ask the gatekeeper who they work for and if they were aware that they were blocking access to a government official. They'll get the message.
I can see this for people whose job requires them to fly on a no-notice basis and others that may be in a similar situation but not for everyone, especially congress and the senate - they need to feel the consequences like the rest of us. All-in-all,it may not really matter how fast you get through security because the aircraft leaves when all passengers are on, not just the ones that get to the gate first.