Houston GWB Intl airport closes TSA checkpoint

[Roland99]

Link to tweet

UPDATE:

The security checkpoint and ticketing counter in Terminal B at George Bush Intercontinental Airport closed at 4:30p Sunday due to “staffing issues associated with the partial shutdown of the federal government”

[Gothmog]

1. Arggh

[DarthDem]

2. Which Affects Airlines, Which Affects Big Business, Which Affects GOP Donors

This is the beginning of the end.

[donkeypoofed]

3. It better be ! So many people are suffering....

...because the likes of Coulter, Limbaugh, Drudge,.etc. want a racist wall that won't work anyways. These dumb people are not smart enough to run the government , but because Spanky's so stoopid, they ARE!

[safeinOhio]

4. Does this mean it's still open

and no security check?

[struggle4progress]

6. ... Flights departing Terminal B will operate as normal, but passengers must check in at Terminals C

or E and then ride the Skyway to Terminal B ...

https://www.chron.com/business/bizfeed/article/TSA-closes-security-checkpoint-at-IAH-Terminal-B-13530619.php

[safeinOhio]

8. Thank you.

[Roland99]

5. UPDATE.....

The security checkpoint and ticketing counter in Terminal B at George Bush Intercontinental Airport closed at 4:30p Sunday due to “staffing issues associated with the partial shutdown of the federal government”

[struggle4progress]

7. Absences among U.S. airport screeners jump as shutdown drags on

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Unscheduled absences among federal airport security screeners jumped on Sunday as a partial government shutdown that has frozen pay checks moved into its 23rd day.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency responsible for airport security screening, said unscheduled absences among its employees rose to 7.7 percent from 5.6 percent on Saturday. The rate is more than double the 3.2 percent rate experienced a year ago ...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-airports/absences-among-u-s-airport-screeners-jump-as-shutdown-drags-on-idUSKCN1P70R0

[struggle4progress]

9. Miami International Airport will reopen shuttered terminal Monday

By Tim Swift - Local10.com Digital Editor
Posted: 11:40 AM, January 13, 2019
Updated: 1:45 PM, January 13, 2019

MIAMI - Miami International Airport plans to reopen a terminal Monday that was partially closed over weekend because of a staff shortage brought on by the government shutdown.

Concourse G, the airport's least busy terminal, closed at 1 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday because the airport didn't have enough Transportation Security Administration agents to staff the security checkpoint ...

https://www.local10.com/news/local/miami/miami-international-airport-will-reopen-shuttered-terminal-monday

[struggle4progress]

10. TSA agent: Government shutdown 'demoralizing' employees

... "It's demoralizing, because you go to work, and you expect pay for hard work and you wake up and your bank account is empty" ... "Everyone is angry, everyone is upset, and everyone is scared because we don't know how we are going to provide for our families moving forward," he said ...

http://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/tsa-agent-government-shutdown-demoralizing-employees

[struggle4progress]

11. Passenger carries firearm through TSA screening at Atlanta onto Delta flight

By Eric Levenson and Shelby Rose, CNN
Updated 4:35 PM ET, Sun January 13, 2019

(CNN)A traveler carrying a firearm boarded a flight from Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and flew to Tokyo Narita International Airport on January 3, according to a statement from the Transportation Security Administration.

"TSA has determined standard procedures were not followed and a passenger did in fact pass through a standard screening TSA checkpoint with a firearm at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on the morning of January 3," the release states.

Delta Airlines also issued a statement to CNN, saying that "upon the customer's disclosure, the airline reported the incident to the TSA."

The security breach came two weeks into the government shutdown, during which TSA agents have been required to work but have not received paychecks. CNN first reported on January 4 -- a day after the breach -- that hundreds of TSA agents from at least four major airports had called in sick ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/13/us/tsa-gun-flight/index.html

[Roland99]

12. Fucking lovely

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. I'm semi expecting airline pilots

to stage some kind of a walk out because they are not at all happy with what's going on. I don't know if air traffic controllers have been calling in sick -- not as likely as the TSA agents because they're well paid and are more interested in staying on until retirement -- but I wouldn't be surprised.

Plus, I believe the NTSB is shuttered, and if a major accident occurs it won't be investigated. If I'm wrong about that, please correct me.