How long is the TSA line right now?
16 of 22 covered airports are reporting a live wait, read in the last 5 minutes. The longest standard line is Checkpoint BC at BWI, 103 min. At 13 airports every open standard lane is 10 minutes or under.
Airports ranked by their longest standard line
| Airport | Longest line | Shortest line | Last read |
|---|---|---|---|
| BWI Baltimore Washington | 103min | 103min | |
| SEA Seattle Tacoma , 107 minutes ago | 25min | 25min | 107 minutes ago |
| JFK New York JFK | 13min | 1min | |
| ATL Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta | 5min | under 1min | |
| PHL Philadelphia | 5min | 2min | |
| PHX Phoenix Sky Harbor | 5min | 5min | |
| MSP Minneapolis St Paul | 0 to 5min | 0 to 5min | |
| MIA Miami International | 1 to 3min | 1 to 3min | |
| MCO Orlando | 0 to 3min | 0 to 2min | |
| EWR Newark Liberty | 2min | under 1min | |
| LGA New York LaGuardia | 1min | under 1min | |
| PIT Pittsburgh | 1min | 1min | |
| DAL Dallas Love Field | 0 to 1min | 0 to 1min | |
| DTW Detroit Metro | under 1min | under 1min | |
| JAX Jacksonville | under 1min | under 1min | |
| SLC Salt Lake City | under 1min | under 1min | |
| CLE Cleveland Hopkins | closed | ||
| CLT Charlotte Douglas | closed | ||
| DCA Reagan National | closed | ||
| DFW Dallas Fort Worth | closed | ||
| BOS Boston Logan | no reading since , 2 hours ago | ||
| IAH Houston Bush Intercontinental | no reading since , 3 hours ago | ||
Standard lanes only, longest line first. Each airport is read from its own feed every 10 minutes and the time shown is that airport's.
Airports without a live number
These 83 airports have no live wait time on waittimes.io: 5 publish one on their own sites, linked from their pages, and 16 publish none. Each page shows how busy its security usually is, hour by hour, from TSA's own counts. The same counts rank every airport TSA counts by people screened and show the busiest time and day to fly.
- ABQAlbuquerque Sunport
- ALBAlbany
- ANCAnchorage
- AUSAustin Bergstrom
- AVLAsheville
- BDLHartford Bradley
- BHMBirmingham
- BNANashville
- BOIBoise
- BUFBuffalo Niagara
- BURHollywood Burbank
- BZNBozeman Yellowstone
- CHSCharleston
- CMHColumbus John Glenn
- COSColorado Springs
- CVGCincinnati
- DENDenver
- DSMDes Moines
- ECPPanama City Beaches
- ELPEl Paso
- FATFresno Yosemite
- FLLFort Lauderdale
- GEGSpokane
- GRRGrand Rapids
- GSOGreensboro Piedmont Triad
- GSPGreenville Spartanburg
- GUMGuam
- HNLHonolulu
- HOUHouston Hobby
- HPNWestchester County
- IADWashington Dulles
- INDIndianapolis
- KOAKona
- LASLas Vegas Harry Reid
- LAXLos Angeles
- LGBLong Beach
- LIHLihue
- LITLittle Rock
- MCIKansas City
- MDWChicago Midway
- MEMMemphis
- MKEMilwaukee Mitchell
- MSNMadison
- MSYNew Orleans
- MYRMyrtle Beach
- OAKOakland
- OGGMaui Kahului
- OKCOklahoma City
- OMAOmaha Eppley
- ONTOntario
- ORDChicago O'Hare
- ORFNorfolk
- PDXPortland
- PGDPunta Gorda
- PIESt Pete Clearwater
- PNSPensacola
- PSPPalm Springs
- PVDProvidence
- PWMPortland Maine
- RDURaleigh Durham
- RICRichmond
- RNOReno Tahoe
- ROCRochester
- RSWFort Myers
- SANSan Diego
- SATSan Antonio
- SAVSavannah Hilton Head
- SDFLouisville
- SFBOrlando Sanford
- SFOSan Francisco
- SJCSan Jose
- SJUSan Juan
- SMFSacramento
- SNAJohn Wayne Orange County
- SRQSarasota Bradenton
- STLSt Louis Lambert
- SYRSyracuse
- TPATampa
- TULTulsa
- TUSTucson
- TYSKnoxville
- VPSDestin Fort Walton Beach
- XNANorthwest Arkansas
Questions people ask
Is there a way to see how busy TSA is right now?
Yes, at the 22 US airports that publish one. The table above ranks them by their longest standard security line right now, read from each airport's own feed every 10 minutes, with the time of the last read beside every number. Each number is the airport's own published wait, never an estimate made by this site. The 83 airports with no live number here carry TSA's own hourly passenger counts on their pages instead, which show when a checkpoint is usually loaded rather than how long the line is. 5 of them publish a live wait on their own sites, and their pages link it.
Which airport has the longest security line right now?
At 2:49 am Eastern, Baltimore Washington (BWI): the standard lane at Checkpoint BC reads 103 min. The table above ranks all 22 covered airports by their longest standard line, and the shortest open lane at each is next to it.
How current are these numbers?
Each airport publishes its own wait times and waittimes.io reads every feed every 10 minutes. The time next to each airport is the last read, in that airport's own time zone. A number older than 30 minutes says so, and an airport whose feed has published nothing for 2 hours shows when it last did instead of a number. Nothing here is predicted.
Which airports are covered?
22 airports: Baltimore Washington (BWI), Boston Logan (BOS), Charlotte Douglas (CLT), Cleveland Hopkins (CLE), Dallas Fort Worth (DFW), Dallas Love Field (DAL), Detroit Metro (DTW), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (ATL), Houston Bush Intercontinental (IAH), Jacksonville (JAX), Miami International (MIA), Minneapolis St Paul (MSP), New York JFK (JFK), New York LaGuardia (LGA), Newark Liberty (EWR), Orlando (MCO), Philadelphia (PHL), Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX), Pittsburgh (PIT), Reagan National (DCA), Salt Lake City (SLC) and Seattle Tacoma (SEA). Atlanta's own site forbids automated reading, so ATL, BOS, DTW, SEA and SLC come from the wait-time table Delta publishes. The 83 airports with no live number here are listed under the table; each page shows how busy its security usually is, from TSA's counts.
What happens to TSA lines in a government shutdown?
TSA officers are excepted staff, so screening goes on through a lapse in appropriations and they are paid when it ends. In past lapses more officers called out the longer it ran, and a few airports closed a checkpoint or a lane for a day, so lines grew at some airports and not at others. The wait times on this site come from each airport's own feed and from Delta's table, not from tsa.gov, so they keep publishing while the MyTSA app may not. TSA's counts, which draw each airport's busyness map, are published through its FOIA reading room and stop arriving until the lapse ends; the map keeps showing the days already counted.
Where the numbers come from
- BWI Marshall Airport
- BWI at bwiairport.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Charlotte Douglas International Airport
- CLT at cltairport.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
- CLE at clevelandairport.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- DFW Airport
- DFW at dfwairport.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Dallas Love Field
- DAL at dallas-lovefield.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Delta Air Lines
- ATL at news.delta.com, BOS at news.delta.com, DTW at news.delta.com, SEA at news.delta.com, SLC at news.delta.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Houston Airport System
- IAH at fly2houston.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Jacksonville International Airport
- JAX at flyjacksonville.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- MSP Airport
- MSP at mspairport.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Miami International Airport
- MIA at miami-airport.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Orlando International Airport
- MCO at flymco.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Philadelphia International Airport
- PHL at phl.org. Read every 10 minutes.
- Phoenix Sky Harbor
- PHX at skyharbor.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Pittsburgh International Airport
- PIT at flypittsburgh.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Reagan National Airport
- DCA at flyreagan.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
- EWR at newarkairport.com, JFK at jfkairport.com, LGA at laguardiaairport.com. Read every 10 minutes.
- Who reads them
- Arcane Digital, which runs waittimes.io, reads every feed every 10 minutes with its own collector and stores the time of each read. The day's reads are checked every night for a feed that has stopped or thinned, and one person reads that report the next morning. Nobody types a number in.
- What we never do
- Predict a wait in minutes, or show an old number as if it were current.
- Every feed
- How each one is read, the TSA counts and who to write to: the sources page.