{"id":156355,"date":"2026-04-03T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156355\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T14:30:39","slug":"philadelphia-airport-to-reopen-all-tsa-checkpoints-wait-times-at-phl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156355\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia airport to reopen all TSA checkpoints; Wait times at PHL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Good news for travelers in Philadelphia, all terminal security checkpoints at the Philadelphia International Airport are scheduled to reopen by Tuesday, April 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The airport originally closed three TSA checkpoints on March 18, amid a Department of Homeland Security shutdown that was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/ice-philadelphia-airport-trump-dhs-155302454.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:suffocating airports across the country;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;suffocating airports across the country&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suffocating airports across the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are PHL security checkpoints reopen? TSA checkpoints in Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Philadelphia International Airport, all TSA checkpoints will be reopened by Tuesday, April 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal C&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/tsa-wait-times-getting-better-142319094.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:security checkpoint reopened Thursday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;security checkpoint reopened Thursday&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">security checkpoint reopened Thursday<\/a>, April 2, and Terminal A-West reopens today, April 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal F&#8217;s security checkpoint is scheduled to reopen Tuesday, and all checkpoints will be back to operating at regular hours.<\/p>\n<p>When does TSA open at Philadelphia International Airport? TSA hours at PHL<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal A-East Standard Security: 4:15 a.m. &#8211; 10:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal A-East TSA PreCheck: 4:15 a.m. &#8211; 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal A-West Standard Security: 5 a.m. &#8211; 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal B Standard Security: 3:30 a.m. &#8211; 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal C (TSA PreCheck only): 4:15 a.m. &#8211; 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal D\/E Standard Security: 3 a.m. &#8211; 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal D\/E TSA PreCheck: 3:45 a.m. &#8211; 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>TSA PHL wait times. How long are TSA lines at Philadelphia International?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here are the wait times for TSA in Philadelphia as of Friday morning, April 3:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal A-East: 3 mins standard security, 4 mins TSA PreCheck<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal A-West: 3 mins standard security<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal B: 8 mins standard security<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal C: 4 mins (TSA PreCheck only)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Terminal D\/E: 5 mins standard security, 2 mins TSA PreCheck<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">To give travelers a better understanding of what they can expect at the airport, live wait time updates can be found on PHL&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phl.org\/flights\/security-information\/checkpoint-hours\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:checkpoint hours page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;checkpoint hours page&quot;}\" class=\"link \">checkpoint hours page<\/a>\u00a0as wait times shift throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kaitlyn McCormick is a Philadelphia-based reporter writing all things trending, breaking and city-related for USA TODAY&#8217;s Philadelphia Metro Connect Team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2026\/04\/03\/what-tsa-checkpoints-are-open-at-phl-tsa-wait-times-in-philly-today\/89448950007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:What TSA checkpoints are open at PHL; TSA wait times in Philly today;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;What TSA checkpoints are open at PHL&quot;}\" class=\"link \">What TSA checkpoints are open at PHL; TSA wait times in Philly today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good news for travelers in Philadelphia, all terminal security checkpoints at the Philadelphia International Airport are scheduled to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23070,69,71,1013,70,65543,70884,13305,70883],"class_list":{"0":"post-156355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-department-of-homeland-security","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-international-airport","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-security-checkpoints","14":"tag-standard-security","15":"tag-tsa","16":"tag-tsa-precheck"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}