Anonymous wrote:It’s a nightmare, flight delayed because so many passengers missing; lines at every service desk including at gate, constant change announcement updates, long security line.

It’s nice if some flights are waiting. Our flight is not allowing late arrivals. They “closed” boarding and started removing bags of those missing.

It’s a nightmare, flight delayed because so many passengers missing; lines at every service desk including at gate, constant change announcement updates, long security line.

We are on our plane at BWI. Security was a full 4 hours. We are slightly delayed because 56 people are missing from the flight and because it’s international they have to remove all their checked bags. As soon as that is done we are leaving but no one else can board.

Anyone checking bags who cannot split off and send someone to TSA line (you pretty much need an older kid to go do it as both adults have to be present to drop the bags) plan to get there 6 hours early if you have flight tomorrow.

Anonymous wrote:BWI terrible again this morning! People coming way too early for flights causing a check in bottleneck!

This. Understandable but the people with morning flights are in an impossible situation.

We showed up 5am and barely made a 930 flight.

An hour to check in bags and then we overlapped and sent our teenager to wait in the TSA line. Nearly 4 hours in the TSA line.

It’s a mess. Our flight is half full and many people around us in line had already missed flights.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is pre-check closed at certain times?? That is crazy. We are not flying out of BWI for another 2 weeks and I hope things go back to normal.

Trump singed an EO to pay them starting Nknday. Which is insane because he it means they could have been paid all along, just like ICE has been. This all cooks been avoided.

He doesn’t have authority to do this where is the $ coming from.

For once I don’t care if he has the authority to do something if he can get TSA functioning again. TSA agents, and all of us travelers, shouldn’t be pawns in the political games.

I stood in the security line at BEI on Friday night for 90 minutes which wasn’t bad. This was for terminals D and E. My friend was in one of the other terminals and she waited for 4 hours. And then our flights were delayed by a 3 hours due to some air traffic shutdown.

BWI terrible again this morning! People coming way too early for flights causing a check in bottleneck!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is pre-check closed at certain times?? That is crazy. We are not flying out of BWI for another 2 weeks and I hope things go back to normal.

Trump singed an EO to pay them starting Nknday. Which is insane because he it means they could have been paid all along, just like ICE has been. This all cooks been avoided.

He doesn’t have authority to do this where is the $ coming from.

Anonymous wrote:Why is pre-check closed at certain times?? That is crazy. We are not flying out of BWI for another 2 weeks and I hope things go back to normal.

Trump singed an EO to pay them starting Nknday. Which is insane because he it means they could have been paid all along, just like ICE has been. This all cooks been avoided.

Why is pre-check closed at certain times?? That is crazy. We are not flying out of BWI for another 2 weeks and I hope things go back to normal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Will it continue to be bad throughout the weekend?

What is going to change between now and tomorrow?

DHS secretary said they are pushing out payment to TSA agents that should start hitting on Monday. Knowing they are gonna get paid will probably induce more folks to go in.

Maybe. A girl can dream.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The NYT tracker says waits are less than 10 minutes but that checkpoint A is closed.

What does it say now? The bwi website says A and B are both closed with long lines. It was updated at 5:55.

I’m the one who posted it and I don’t believe it any more. Tons and tons of videos and FB and Reddit reports of people waiting 3+ hours and missing their flights anyway. For terminal A/B/C - Southwest and American. If you are D/E there is no wait, which is insane because they should just move staff over. The terminals don’t connect inside security.

Anonymous wrote:The NYT tracker says waits are less than 10 minutes but that checkpoint A is closed.

What does it say now? The bwi website says A and B are both closed with long lines. It was updated at 5:55.

My friend just texted that she and her family have been waiting in the security line for 1.5 hours