IAH is an unmitigated effing disaster right now - it's Afghanistan level

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In reply to Z100 • 5:37a, 3/26/26
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Z100 said:
I received the 1K/GS text and email on Monday evening for my Tuesday morning flight.
I arrived in Terminal C at 4AM and was told by security they knew nothing about it and sent me to E.
While waiting in line, I phone the UA Premier desk who knew nothing either.
Net/Net - I was in line for 1 hour 45 mins before clearing E TSA.


You were too early. The lady next to me on my 10am flight Tuesday absolutely went thru the 1k line at C.

Close friend of mine went thru it Wednesday morning for her flight. It's definitely there.
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6:52a, 3/26/26
Got in line at 4:20am in E and got through at 6:40am.
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Peter Piper
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7:01a, 3/26/26
Add 30 mins if you have checked bags at C.
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8:28a, 3/26/26
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240 minutes on IAH website. Yikes. I have a few coworkers in it this morning.
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8:34a, 3/26/26
Is this one of those deals where when it's over the strikers still get paid for the time they were sent home?
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8:39a, 3/26/26
Had a friend go through HOU this morning in less than 10mins
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In reply to rononeill • 8:40a, 3/26/26
rononeill said:
Is this one of those deals where when it's over the strikers still get paid for the time they were sent home?

They'll get paid for the hours they worked + interest. They won't get paid for the call out days.

They're not in that "nonessential" category that gets that perk.
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8:42a, 3/26/26
Not to generalize, but if they're not picking up gig work, they're just hanging out at home or taking a non paid vacation?
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In reply to rononeill • 8:50a, 3/26/26
rononeill said:
Not to generalize, but if they're not picking up gig work, they're just hanging out at home or taking a non paid vacation?

Basically.
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11:34a, 3/26/26
Got in line at A down in the subway at 10:50.
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11:34a, 3/26/26
From this article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/us/tsa-airport-delays-houston-bush.html

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Mayor John Whitmire of Houston said on Tuesday that an additional 50 officers had been sent from the agency's National Deployment Office to help at Houston's airports this week, a sign that the federal government was responding to the problem.

But those officers who are sent around the country in order to help local airports with travel surges were disproportionately assigned the smaller Houston airport, William P. Hobby, the mayor's office said. Around 40 of them were working there, while others were deployed to Bush.


They sent them to Hobby for what reason??
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In reply to Topaz • 12:01p, 3/26/26
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Because they are from the government
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12:12p, 3/26/26
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12:23p, 3/26/26
Just got through A in 1.5 hr
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1:15p, 3/26/26
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So if most airports arent havi issues and have agents to send down to Houston. Then what is really the actual problem with our TSA here??!!
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In reply to TX04Aggie • 1:31p, 3/26/26
It appears the national hubs are seeing the issues. My guess is sheer volume and # of TSA people on staff.
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2:12p, 3/26/26
United sent me a text this morning saying 1K can go thru C, can anyone confirm this?
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In reply to kelkel25 • 2:24p, 3/26/26
kelkel25 said:
United sent me a text this morning saying 1K can go thru C, can anyone confirm this?


Saw people going through security in C this morning.
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2:28p, 3/26/26
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ATL has been pretty bad too.
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In reply to Gaeilge • 2:45p, 3/26/26
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It appears the national hubs are seeing the issues. My guess is sheer volume and # of TSA people on staff.


There has to be something else making our problems worse. ORD and LAX (just two hub examples I could think of quickly) are business as usual, and MSY isn't what I would consider a hub.
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In reply to Gaeilge • 3:19p, 3/26/26
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Gaeilge said:
My guess is sheer volume and # of TSA people on staff.

Excellent work, detective.
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3:39p, 3/26/26
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4:19p, 3/26/26
If you can go thru C, do it. 19 minutes total time to get thru and screened.
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5:36p, 3/26/26
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Besides our do nothing DC politicians, is this a more localized leadership breakdown. Bad TSA director at IAH or something??
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In reply to TX04Aggie • 5:53p, 3/26/26
Yeah, I'm thinking there is a really toxic culture at IAH. Add no paychecks and people are out of there.
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6:41p, 3/26/26
Those of us with flights next week thank you.
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6:41p, 3/26/26
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Flying home to IAH today from MKE. Spring break in full swing with families heading south = crowded airport. 100% TSA lanes open including pre-check and Clear. What a difference granted nowhere near as large as IAH.
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In reply to kelkel25 • 8:12p, 3/26/26
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kelkel25 said:
United sent me a text this morning saying 1K can go thru C, can anyone confirm this?


Yes. Coworker flying out Wednesday is 1K and got text Tuesday night. She was still anxious as this is a multi week trip to far east so showed up around 4:30am before they opened but as soon as it opened got through in C.
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8:21a, 3/27/26
Dropped a friend's nephew off at Terminal A this morning at 5:15. He got through security at 8:15.

He has pre-check but it wasn't open.
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In reply to lunchbox • 8:31a, 3/27/26
lunchbox said:
Dropped a friend's nephew off at Terminal A this morning at 5:15. He got through security at 8:15.

He has pre-check but it wasn't open.


Bill is going to the House today. Expect it to be business as usual by Monday. Hopefully the people that 'quit' comeback.

They need to take TSA out of DHS. This was absolutely bull**** and the package passed had been offered to Dems weeks ago. There's zero reforms in it. CBP & ICE aren't funded in it, but they're funded through like 2029 already via the BBB.
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In reply to TX04Aggie • 9:33a, 3/27/26
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TX04Aggie said:
So if most airports arent havi issues and have agents to send down to Houston. Then what is really the actual problem with our TSA here??!!


I'm not a major traveler or anything, but IAH has the crankiest, most inhospitable TSA agents of any of the airports I've flown out of in the last 10 years. It's noticeable and as a passenger going through the security line, it's like going through the Seinfeld soup nazi line. I can imagine it's worse now that they haven't been paid in over a month.

Last week it took us 10 minutes to get through security at DFW. I told my wife I was glad we chose to drive the almost 3 hours to get there when we bought the tickets to LAS back in January. Last time we flew out of IAH in October, TSA hadn't been paid in a minute due to that shutdown; that combined with the parking cluster**** and cheaper flight made me go with DFW this time. Turned out to be a good choice even though I didn't foresee yet another shutdown.
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9:39a, 3/27/26
I guess one positive to having IAH as my home base airport my whole life is that I've been conditioned to expect the worst… parking, TSA, all of it. Makes everything else seem like a breeze.
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10:07a, 3/27/26
Looking back on my TSA experience yesterday, it just seems so silly to me. Probably 100 or so people working to crowd control, direct, manage the line of thousands of people, all so 2 lines with maybe 5 TSA workers total can check bags and look at the body scan machine.
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In reply to Texaggie7nine • 11:52a, 3/27/26
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The process is the punishment
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