The holiday period starts tomorrow, and Atlanta airport security officials say they’ll be fully-staffed to handle the crush of travelers.
The 12-day holiday travel period could see record numbers of flyers using Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International airport. Airport officials say the Transportation Security Administration is not equipped to handle the load of passengers.
TSA spokesman Jon Allen disagrees. He says it will be “all hands on deck” with part-timers added for this period.
"We actually did some adjustments to our scheduling that went into effect a couple of months ago…to deploy staff at different times, in order to try to better meet those peak travel demand times”.
Security wait-times last weekend were well-above the airport’s target of 15-20 minutes.
TSA does plan to cut 50 full-timers from its Atlanta-operations, down to a regular number of 850.
