Your grandparents can wax nostalgic about the supposed " prosperous historic period of flying " all they need . Wow , you got full repast and friendly flight attendants ? Kudos . Where are your scars from the favorable old age of TSA security measure delays ? THAT ‘S something to brag to your grandkids about .
If you flew in the past twelvemonth or so , you might ’ve get to see a charming era of aviation , where two hours on a TSA phone line was n’t even unusual . ( We ’ll see your so - shout out Greatest Generation and set up you a Latest Generation . ) protection wait clip crept up steadily since 2006 , then doubled at many aerodrome earlier in 2016 . What a fourth dimension to be alive ! And some of us have been prosperous enough to get these enceinte postponement far more than others .
Time.comgot some interesting data from the folks at TSA , show the airports with the most frequent passenger security time lag from 2006 - 2015 , defined as wait in line longer than 20 transactions . What ’s most surprising is the common suspectsnottopping the list of dim airport . Only five of the 25 slowest were airport with more than 10 million passenger in 2015 , and a lot of heavy hitters were nowhere to be seen . While the rank slowest were in some of the more far - flung airports in the nation .
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Behold , the 10 worst airports in America for procrastinators :
10 . Austin-Bergstrom International, Texas
6.67 delays per 100,000 passengers , 5.8 million passengers in 2015
9. Lambert-St. Louis International, Missouri
7.36 delays per 100,000 passengers , 6.2 million rider
8. Long Island MacArthur, New York
7.6 delays per 100,000 passengers , 630,600 passengers in 2015
7. Burlington International, Vermont
7.77 delays per 100,000 rider , 581,100 passengers in 2015
6. Buffalo Niagara International, New York
8.53 delays per 100,000 passengers , 2.3 million passengers in 2015
5. Miami International, Florida
8.9 delays per 100,000 passenger , 21 million passengers in 2015
4. Southwest Florida International, Fort Myers, Florida
9.55 holdup per 100,000 passengers , 4.2 million passengers in 2015
3. LaGuardia, New York
10.26 delay per 100,000 passengers , 14.3 million passenger in 2015
2. Ted Stevens Anchorage International, Alaska
10.94 hold per 100,000 passengers , 2.5 million passenger in 2015
1. Kona International at Keahole, Hawaii
17.58 holdup per 100,000 passengers , 1.5 million rider in 2015
We ’ve called the TSA to find out why piffling Kona was the runaway winner . Other luminary on the listing were Philadelphia at No . 13 , Newark at No . 15 , Seattle - Tacoma at No . 20 , and Bill and Hillary Clinton National in Little Rock at No . 17 . And they ca n’t even blame that on $ 200 haircut .
But it was n’t all bad news ! The analysis also found some airports that move at a decent footstep . Though eight of the 25 fastest handled fewer than a million passengers in 2015 , some big cities made the list . Detroit was the 15th - fastest , with only .75 delays per 100,000 rider , and SFO was 19th - fast , with only .94 delays and a humongous 24.2 million passengers .
Portland International Airport|David Gaylor/Shutterstock
Here are the 10 most expedient :
10. The Eastern Iowa Airport, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
.55 holdup per 100,000 passengers , 557,400 rider in 2015
9. Portland International, Oregon
.51 holdup per 100,000 passengers , 8.3 million rider in 2015
8. Palm Beach International, Florida
.42 delays per 100,000 passengers , 3.1 million passengers in 2015
7. Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field, Idaho
.4 delay per 100,000 passengers , 1.5 million passengers in 2015
6. Harrisburg International, Pennsylvania
.39 delay per 100,000 passengers , 587,000 passenger in 2015
5. Northwest Arkansas Regional, Bentonville, Arkansas
.36 delays per 100,000 rider , 629,900 passengers in 2015
4. Blue Grass, Lexington, Kentucky
.35 delays per 100,000 passengers , 607,000 passengers in 2015
3. Hilo International, Hawaii
.31 delays per 100,000 passengers , 627,200 passengers in 2015
2. Albuquerque International Sunport, New Mexico
.31 hold per 100,000 passengers , 2.3 million passengers in 2015
1. Piedmont Triad International, Greensboro, North Carolina
.25 wait per 100,000 passenger , 848,200 passengers in 2015
Interestingly wanting from the inclination were notorious hotbed of TSA ineptitude like LAX ( 4.46 ) , JFK ( 3.81 ) , DFW ( 2.26 ) , Atlanta ( 1.37 ) , and O’Hare ( 3.92 ) . intend that perhaps the only time this winter you ’d rather be in Chicago than Hawaii is when waiting on an aerodrome security dividing line . That said , with more peoplesigning up for TSA PreCheck , and TSA graduating nearly 200 officers per week this spring , wait prison term finally seem to be slow down . So while the favourable historic period of airport security delays might be coming to an end , there are still a fistful of airports where it ’s still going strong .
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