Philadelphia International Airport announced it was temporarily closing two more Transportation Security Administration checkpoints starting Wednesday due to ongoing TSA staffing shortages.
This is the latest major American airport to cut back on security checkpoints as TSA workers, who missed their first full paycheck over the weekend due to the ongoing partial government shutdown, have increasingly been absent from work.
The announcement of the closures of TSA checkpoints at terminals A-West and F came less than a week after the Philadelphia airport shut down the Terminal C checkpoint on Thursday, creating a bottleneck and lengthy delays for thousands of travelers trying to catch their flights.
As of around noon Wednesday, with the TSA checkpoints at terminals A-West and C already closed, wait times at the remaining TSA checkpoints ranged from two to 22 minutes, according to the PHL website.
Acting Deputy TSA Administrator Adam Stahl told NBC News on Monday that wait
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