Atlanta Airport Seeks to Shorten Wait

Administrator for TSA, Kip Hawley, a high-ranking official on federal transportation, is planning to visit the busiest airport in the world, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia. He plans to come up with an idea to make the airport lines shorter during this summer’s peak season of travel.

Representatives for the Transportation Security Administration met with officials at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport at the beginning of the week. The Transportation Security Administration is responsible for maintaining the security gates at the airport. The congressional delegation for Georgia wrote to Kip Hawley last week in regards to the wait times at Hartsfield-Jackson, which have become quite lengthy. Lawmakers wonder if the security lanes at the airport are prepared for the rush of the summer that will begin at the first of June.

On a yearly basis, more that eighty million travelers come through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The officials at the airport would like to see the time passengers spend waiting in line to less than twenty minutes, a goal that should be easily reached. With an increase in business travelers and the approaching months of summer, the time passengers spend waiting at the security gate has been closer to an hour.

The letter from the congressional delegation to Kip Hawley requests a meeting between himself and Ben DeCosta, the general manager at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to go over the staff at the checkpoints. Ben DeCosta has plans to build tem new security lanes by the middle of the summer.

Kip Hawley replied with a letter to Ben DeCosta telling him that TSA would work towards having full staff at the security gates at all of the lanes during the busiest times. He also agreed to have more staff in the security lanes. Hawley intends to get Atlanta moved up on a list of airports that are supposed to acquire new equipment by the end of this year.

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