{"id":25275,"date":"2025-11-05T07:49:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25275\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:49:33","slug":"phl-airport-closing-checkpoints-as-government-shutdown-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/25275\/","title":{"rendered":"PHL airport closing checkpoints as government shutdown continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phl.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia International Airport<\/a> will close two security checkpoints as the ongoing federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/g-s1-91413\/government-shutdown-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">government shutdown<\/a> continues to hinder airport operations nationwide.\n<\/p>\n<p>Starting Wednesday, Terminals A-West and F security checkpoints will be temporarily closed. In a statement, PHL said in collaboration with the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, the temporary closure will \u201cprovide optimal operations\u201d at checkpoints in terminals A-East, B, C and D\/E.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPHL reminds passengers that they can access all terminals by using any checkpoint,\u201d the statement said. \u201cTerminal C is TSA PreCheck only. The American Airlines shuttle provides service between Terminals A-West, A-East, B, C and F. Stops are located between Terminals A-East and B, between Terminals C and D and F.\u201d\n  <\/p>\n<p>Terminal A-West serves gates A14 through A26 and is mainly used for international flights. Terminal F handles many regional departures and flights that connect to ground transportation through American Airlines\u2019 Landline bus service, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/philadelphia\/news\/2025\/11\/04\/tsa-closing-security-checkpoints-phl-shutdown.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Philadelphia Business Journal<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The airport said staff will be on hand to help travelers navigate the temporary closures.\n<\/p>\n<p>Operating hours for the terminals can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phl.org\/flights\/security-information\/checkpoint-hours\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a>. The airport recommends passengers arrive two hours early for domestic flights and three hours early for international flights.\n<\/p>\n<p>The airport did not provide a reopening date.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,1013,70,16618,13305],"class_list":["post-25275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-international-airport","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-phl","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275","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=25275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}