Comments on: FlyClear Ceases Operations

By: free coupons

free coupons — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:34:54 +0000

I alway travel by plane

By: Submission Article

Submission Article — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:27:37 +0000

Even in My country, INDIA, Almost 80% of the Airlines are going on Loss due to depression. They are still unable to get out of debt that they have taken while they were established.

By: Lee

Lee — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:46:16 +0000

Fly Clear Class Action at http://www.flyclearclassaction.com The Brand Law Firm Located in Orlando, Florida will be filing a lawsuit against Fly Clear and Verified Identity Pass, Inc. on behalf of consumers that have purchased ?Clear Card? services from Fly Clear. Clear Card is a service sold to travelers that expedites the security screening process at airports, and costs approximately $199 per year. Clear Card was in use at airports such as Albany, Denver, San Francisco, and Orlando International Airport. According to its website, Fly Clear has ceased its operations as of June 22, 2009, and its Clear Lanes are no longer available. According to the Clear Card website, Fly Clear will not issue refunds to consumers. If you have purchased a subscription to Fly Clear?s Clear Card services, please contact the attorneys at 877-407-Brand or fill out the contact form on http://www.flyclearclassaction.com

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 05:21:15 +0000

Fly Clear Class Action at http://www.flyclearclassaction.com The Brand Law Firm Located in Orlando, Florida will be filing a lawsuit against Fly Clear and Verified Identity Pass, Inc. on behalf of consumers that have purchased “Clear Card” services from Fly Clear. Clear Card is a service sold to travelers that expedites the security screening process at airports, and costs approximately $199 per year. Clear Card was in use at airports such as Albany, Denver, San Francisco, and Orlando International Airport. According to its website, Fly Clear has ceased its operations as of June 22, 2009, and its Clear Lanes are no longer available. According to the Clear Card website, Fly Clear will not issue refunds to consumers. If you have purchased a subscription to Fly Clear’s Clear Card services, please contact the attorneys at 877-407-Brand or fill out the contact form on http://www.flyclearclassaction.com

By: lkj

lkj — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:55:13 +0000

Join a class action at http://chimicles.com/case/fly-clear-clear-lanes

By: Jason Mendelson

Jason Mendelson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:51:07 +0000

You clearly have negotiated with creditors before. J

Great comment.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:15:36 +0000

I signed up because I didn't fly enough last year to keep elite status, but started flying again this year and wanted to skip the security lines (I fly out of DIA and they can be baaad at times). So I ponied up the $179. Let's see, I made 10 trips since then, so 17.90 a trip. United wanted something like $1100 to protect my elite status… Not worth THAT much; if I had that I wouldn't have bothered with Clear. There was never a line when I went through Clear and I often wondered how long they could take up valuable and congested terminal real estate with almost no business. Too good to last.

By: Rick Bentley

Rick Bentley — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:42:22 +0000

The value to Clear for me was not that the line was usually shorter, but that the time to get through security was predictable. The non-clear lines may or may not be short, the Clear line was always short. This made traffic, which is now easy to get on my phone, the last variable when deciding my home/office departure time — no more padding extra time for the security line.

I also found that Clear made traveling with a child much easier, for reasons you may not expect and that the family lane wouldn't help: http://www.thebentleys.com/blog/2009_04.html

I just re-upped with Clear in April. Sigh. If their subscriber and RPU numbers are accurate, I too wonder where all the money went.

My initial suspicion was that they were playing hardball with creditors and operations will resume. I can't imagine there are any other assets there other than the cash flow from operations. I can, however, clearly picture the following conversation:
Creditor: we're not giving up any of our preferences
Company: you have to, everyone else is, and we can't raise more cash unless you do
Creditor: don't care, we're not budging
Company: … okay, here are the keys. Good luck. You have preferences on a bunch of biometric machines and red ropes.
Creditor: … wait, uh … come back?

It seems, however, that this kind of announcement would go a long way to killing sales. They'd need a huge PR budget to come back after this.

By: Jason Mendelson

Jason Mendelson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:55:06 +0000

Good intel. I didn’t know about the rewards stuff. I guess that I was dumb and getting ripped off. J

By: Wandering Aramean

Wandering Aramean — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:38:00 +0000

(like really, really long )

From the cash burn perspective I'd bet that the vast majority of their subscribers never paid anywhere close to full price to sign up. Everyone I know who had a card got it from being top tier elite at a hotel program. And I cannot imagine that Hyatt, Starwood and Marriott paid full price to buy in bulk like that. On the cost side of the equation they had to staff 3-5 people at a bunch of airports and invest in cool technology like retinal scanners. That costs a bit. But I'm betting the real cash sink was from renting space at the airports. Getting the floor space to set up operations can be very expensive.

That, or they were paying bribes to the TSA.