Transportation Safety Administration officials said Friday they were monitoring reports that the nation’s airports were experiencing an increase in “sick outs” as the partial federal government shutdown entered its third week.
“Call-outs have increased, but they’re really having minimal impact,” said TSA spokesman Jim Gregory. “To date the [checkpoint] wait times remain within TSA standards.”
Those standards are a maximum of 30 minutes spent in a regular checkpoint line and 10 minutes for those who pass through the expedited line under the TSA’s PreCheck program. Gregory said that on Thursday, 2.2 million passengers passed through TSA checkpoints and 99.8 percent of them waited less than 30 minutes.
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