America’s busiest airport has turned into one very long line. We’re receiving messages from hopeful passengers standing in those lines that were at first reported to be one hour and now may be up to a three hour wait. Rick, a News & Guts follower who is in line at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta writes:
We are at Hartfield-Jackson now. Arrived 2 hours prior to flight but security was almost 3 hours not 1.5. A TSA agent told us 90 employees called off today. We had to leave the line to get scheduled on a later flight and were told by the ticketing agent that this started around 5 am this morning. We’re arrived at 8am. Unfortunately, there was no notification from our airline to expect a delay. Although we are traveling for work, our plans are flexible. I can’t imagine the travelers that do not have the flexibility. TSA that were in the airport were extremely helpful and accommodating.
So I’m at @ATLairport and this may be the longest security line I have ever seen. Even growing up here, and even for a Monday morning. One passenger told me he’d been waiting over an hour and still had about 30 minutes to go. pic.twitter.com/UL7EghujQI
— Omar Jimenez (@OmarJimenez) January 14, 2019
Hey Mr. president. Come to the Atlanta airport and see what you are doing to regular people that work AND pay taxes. See how happy we are. pic.twitter.com/TIt1ePAIkF
— JJG (@joey79045) January 14, 2019
TSA airport lines continue to suffer due to the government shutdown.
“We saw people missing flights. There were people crying not able to get through,” @DianneG reports from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, the world’s busiest airport: https://t.co/4LLI49EiZK pic.twitter.com/rZxiwKqlSF
— CNN (@CNN) January 14, 2019
And now it’s spread to Washington Dulles where screening lanes were reportedly closed.
Washington Dulles International became the latest airport to close screening lanes because of absences by unpaid TSA agents https://t.co/356vm8vful
— POLITICO (@politico) January 14, 2019