Here’s a feature that would have been very useful First This week. Amid recent hours-long airport lines, United is adding security wait times to its app. However, this facility comes days after security lines returned to normal. Hey, at least it’ll last for the next shutdown.
At launch, this feature is only available for United’s hub airports. This includes Chicago O’Hare, Denver, Houston, LAX, Newark, San Francisco, and Washington Dulles. Passengers traveling from any of these locations will find this facility in the travel section of the United app. This will display separate wait times for the standard security and TSA Precheck lines.
However, timing is everything, and this is where United fall short. This week, airport security lines finally returned to normal as TSA employees began receiving their first pay in more than a month. Learn: This led to better attendance and hence, less wait time.
More than 60,000 TSA employees have been working without pay since the partial government shutdown began in February. The DHS shutdown continues, but President Trump late Friday ordered the agency to begin processing unpaid wages for TSA employees. When asked why she did not sign the order sooner, White House spokeswoman Carolyn Leavitt cited an “existential crisis” at the airports. (Translation: It contributed to an existential voting crisis for the president.)
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