Registered Travelers Get a Break—Sort of

Travel Blog  •  Elyse Franko  •  07.29.08 | 11:05 AM ET

The Transportation Security Administration says those signing up for the Registered Traveler (RT) program, which gives security lane benefits at select airports, will no longer need to fork over $28 for a security screening. Apparently, the RT screening “largely duplicates the watch list matching that is conducted on all travelers every time they fly,” the TSA says. As the Economist’s Gulliver blog pointed out, it’s very convenient that they’ve realized this now, after 135,000 people have paid the fee.

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Elyse Franko is a Long Island native, a graduate of the American University School of Communication in Washington, D.C., and a former World Hum intern. During her time at university, she wrote and edited for several campus publications and fostered her love for traveling by spending time abroad in Istanbul, Turkey, and Berlin, Germany. She currently works as a teaching assistant in Vienna, Austria.


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