Standing in a long line at the airport isn’t always the worst thing. For many travelers, it’s standing in a long line at the airport and watching while other passengers sail past.
That’s because travelers enrolled in TSA PreCheck or a service called Clear can reduce the amount of time they have to wait in lines at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints by bypassing standard screening lines for separate, often quicker vetting procedures.
And air travelers without expedited access are increasingly becoming frustrated by this moving-to-the-front scenario as short-staffed security checkpoints continue to paralyze some airports amid the partial government shutdown affecting the TSA.