Several U.S. airports warned travelers Monday of long security wait times as the partial government shutdown drags into another week, with videos posted to social media over the weekend showing chaotic scenes during the busy spring break travel season.
Early Monday morning, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport said travelers should expect “extended wait times” at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints after the airport worked through ground stops and staffing issues over the weekend. As of 9 a.m. Monday, wait times at the main security checkpoint were about 60 minutes.
According to the MyTSA app, wait times at Chicago O’Hare International Airport and at Midway International Airports were significantly shorter. As of 9 a.m., security wait times appeared to be between 15 and 30 minutes at O’Hare, and up to 15 minutes at Midway.
The app, which TSA says allows passengers check security wait times in real time, also showed that TSA PreCheck lanes were not available at O’Hare. The Chicago Department of Aviation did not immediately respond to NBC Chicago’s request for comment.
Longer wait times were in place at other airports across the country, information from TSA showed, with Houston Hobby Airport showing wait times as high as 165 minutes. In a message posted late Sunday night, the airport said TSA agents over the weekend, who are working without pay, took on additional shifts to help keep security lanes open.
Longer-than-average lines were also expected Monday at Louis Armstrong Airport in New Orleans, where officials told passengers to arrive for their flights three hours early.
In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security blamed the waits on the government shutdown, saying the hours-long wait times major airports could continue, leading to missed flights and “massive delays during peak travel.”
Agents with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration are expected to work without pay during the ongoing shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, which began Feb. 14. Democratic lawmakers have said DHS won’t get funded until new restrictions are placed on federal immigration operations following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this year.
Chris Sununu, president and CEO of Airlines for America, a trade group for U.S. airlines, in a statement urged Congress and the Trump administration to act.
“We are in spring break travel season and expecting record numbers of people to take to the skies. Airlines have done their part to prepare; now Congress and the administration must act with urgency to reach a deal that reopens DHS and ends this shutdown,” he said. “America’s transportation security workforce is too important to be used as political leverage.”
This story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
Hence then, the article about how to check o hare airport tsa wait times amid long security lines at major us airports was published today ( ) and is available on NBC Chicago ( Middle East ) The editorial team at PressBee has edited and verified it, and it may have been modified, fully republished, or quoted. You can read and follow the updates of this news or article from its original source.
Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( How to check O'Hare Airport TSA wait times amid long security lines at major US airports )
Also on site :