Members of the national House Aviation Subcommittee toured Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson International Airport today. They wanted to see how the world's busiest airport fared during the four-day Thanksgiving holiday.
Georgia Republican Representative Lynn Westmoreland was among those who toured the airport. Westmoreland gave Hartsfield-Jackson high marks for moving an estimated 310-thousand passengers per day over the Thanksgiving holiday. But he did say there is room for improvement.
"Right now, you get into those screening lines and you come to a chokepoint. We need to do something to do way with that chokepoint. It would take a little bit of reconfiguring inside the airport. We're going to look at several different things we think would expedite the systems."One suggestion from the subcommittee: pre-screen frequent flyers and pass them through a different security gate.
Airport officials dispute the group's finding of delays of up to 40 minutes. A spokesperson for Hartsfield Jackson says peak wait time over the holiday was just 20 minutes.
