Government shutdown hits spring break travel with hours-long TSA lines
USA TODAY
A partial shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security left some travelers waiting hours at airport security checkpoints.
Security lines stretched for hours at several major U.S. airports Sunday, March 8, as a partial government shutdown and the start of spring break travel collided, leaving some passengers scrambling to make their flights.
Airports, including Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, reported unusually long wait times at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints. At one point Sunday afternoon, security lines at Hobby Airport averaged about three and a half hours. By 6 p.m., waits were still around three hours.
In New Orleans, officials urged travelers to plan ahead.
“TSA is experiencing a shortage of workers at the security checkpoint, which is causing longer-than-average lines,” the airport said in a social media post.
Travelers reported lines winding through terminals and even outside the buildings. Eliana Patterson, who was returning home to Boston, told Reuters the line at the New Orleans airport stretched well beyond the checkpoint area.
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