back to indexSkip the Lines with Airport Greeters

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One thing we didn't talk about is greeters. Okay. And there is a hack. Again, there's a cost to it. 00:00:05.260 |
In most airports, there's the accessibility of getting around some lines by using a paid airport 00:00:11.420 |
employee, a greeter, to get you through security, sometimes immigration, much faster. These folks 00:00:16.120 |
cost between $150 and $500 per use, and it does scale up based on how many people are using it at 00:00:22.340 |
the same time. So if you're a family of five, it might be $150 for the first passenger, then $50 for 00:00:26.900 |
each passenger they're after. So it's not cheap. But in some places where it's confusing to get to the 00:00:32.180 |
airport, or you've got a tight connection, if you're coming inbound from one airline and going 00:00:36.320 |
out on another, or if you're in a foreign country and you don't speak the language, getting a greeter 00:00:40.260 |
might be a really valuable experience. We've used greeters at five-year-old airports across the 00:00:43.960 |
world, right? Getting a greeter in a porter is a great way of getting through domestic airports, 00:00:47.320 |
internationally especially, cutting lines, getting through security faster, getting through immigration 00:00:51.540 |
faster, getting into a different lounge you might not have access to with your ticket, a great leveling