including New York City-area hubs<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat You Need To Know<\/p>\n
In two days, unless a deal is made, TSA employees will miss their second full paycheck as Congress fights over funding to the Department of Homeland Security
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John F. Kennedy International Airport has consistently remained in the top five airports with the most TSA agents not showing up for work
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Many commercial and cargo airlines have already sent a joint letter to Congress urging them to fully fund TSA<\/p>\n
According to the DHS on Monday, the average TSA call-out rate at airports across the nation was just under 11%.<\/p>\n
John F. Kennedy International Airport has consistently remained in the top five airports with the most TSA agents not showing up for work. That trend continued Monday, with more than 33% of TSA officers calling out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
LaGuardia Airport dealt with missing more than 20% of its TSA employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s horrible [how] they treat employees that have such an important job of getting people where they need to go,\u201d air traveler Madeline Luther said Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s not just travel for leisure. It\u2019s for businesses, small business. It hits the economy really hard.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the fact that nobody is doing anything about it,\u201d Luther added. \u201cNot even the representatives are saying, well, let’s do something different to stop it, because it\u2019s not the first time.\u201d<\/p>\n
TSA employees also went unpaid during last fall\u2019s record-long government shutdown. As for when the partial shutdown will end, that remains unclear.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There seemed to be a breakthrough in talks late Monday night, but it all fizzled Tuesday as Democrats rejected an offer from Republicans that they said did not address any reforms to immigration enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Travel rights lawyer Kim Kirkely shared tips for air travelers waiting on long security lines.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery airline has a website with a live chat agent that you can connect to maybe while you are standing on that line trying to get that next flight,\u201d Kirkely said. \u201cAnd that live chat agent has a lot more options and flexibility than that overwhelmed human at the desk.\u201d<\/p>\n
Many commercial and cargo airlines have already sent a joint letter to Congress urging them to fully fund TSA.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Delta also announced that it has suspended all special services to congressional members until the agency is fully funded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In two days, unless a deal is made, Transportation Security Administration employees will miss their second full paycheck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[14333,25,1084,297,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,27,296,142],"class_list":["post-174666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-alyssa-paolicelli","tag-app-top-stories","tag-app-traffic-transit","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}