"We don't want to hold this installation up." "That's not a no," Tracy Thompson, the airport's interim chief of planning and development, told him in a meeting before the vote. He was told that would have to be considered as part of a larger project to overhaul the airport. The advisory commission's chair, Eugene Sepulveda, implored staff to add an exit near the largest screening area, Checkpoint One, for those who have mobility issues. Even more flights are expected in early 2022. The new routes helped push flight capacity at ABIA up 14% this month over October 2019. British Airways, Air Canada, Southwest, Alaska and American are all adding flights in Austin this month or next. Meanwhile, the airport is getting busier. Airline ticketing counters and concessionaires have both been understaffed. The wait to get through TSA screening is one of several factors slowing travelers. KUT People traveling through Austin-Bergstrom International Airport have been advised to show up 2.5 hours before departure for domestic flights and three hours before departure for international flights. For international flights, travelers were advised to arrive three hours early. This past weekend, passengers on domestic flights were told to arrive at the airport at least 2.5 hours before departure regardless the time of day. TSA standards call for wait times of 30 minutes or less. it still puts us into 40-, 45-minute delays as we try to process the customer," ABIA's Chief Business and Finance Officer Mookie Patel said in an interview. "Anytime we see above that 30,000-passenger mark, even with having the K-9 units that allow customers to leave their shoes on. 8, more than 30,000 passengers flew out of ABIA. But the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines encouraged people to feel safe flying, and "bookings have started to trend up again as the delta variant impact is waning," airport staff wrote in their monthly briefing to the AAC. The pandemic temporarily gutted the travel industry, and ABIA saw passenger volumes plummet by about 90%. The TSA has set aside three X-ray machines for the project, spokesperson Patricia Mancha said. Officials at the city-owned airport want to have the new screening lanes up and running by the end of December or beginning of January. The money would also pay for work already done that allowed the TSA to add three CT machines that screen bags more quickly by creating 3D images of their contents. The commission, whose members are appointed by the Austin City Council, approved the $1.5 million item, sending it to the council for a vote Nov.
A fourth TSA checkpoint with three additional lanes would be located near the east exit from the departures terminal, as indicated by a red circle on the map.Ĭurrent TSA wait times are "resulting in passenger frustration and missing scheduled flights" during the busiest times of day, staff wrote to members of the Airport Advisory Commission ahead of its vote on the plan last week.
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