Clearing airport security with your finger and iris scans

New York

AIRPORT terminals are often a maze of lines that choke check-in counters and kiosks, baggage drop-off areas, gates and security checkpoints.

Finding solutions to line fatigue has become a priority for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) - and a business opportunity for others. A company called Clear is using fingerprints and iris scans to spare some passengers the first phase of the TSA's security airport screening process - the document-verification checkpoint and its line.