New York, NY —

Air travelers hoping to avoid standing in endless airport security lines - you may be in luck. For just a hundred dollars a year, you can go through a new express lane. WNYC's Arun Venugopal has more on a new pre-screening program being launched at JFK Airport.

REPORTER: The program is known as Clear, and was launched by a private company. Subscribers get a card with a computer chip in it, that stores biometric information, such as their fingerprints, or an image of their iris. They're also background checked by the TSA.

At the terminal, members can bypass the security line used by the masses and go straight to a Clear check-in. Where they insert their Clear card into a machine, and make sure that matches an onsite fingerprint or iris scan. They then proceed through security.

Clear CEO Steven Brill says it solves the problem of people who share a name with a suspected terrorist. For them the card is free.

BRILL: We're talking to TSA about a program where we would not profit from helping them to solve the very real problem of ... who are not on those lists.

REPORTER: Security consultant Rafi Ron says the question is whether the program will stretch TSA's resources between Clear members and regular flyers. For WNYC, I'm Arun Venugopal.