{"id":214101,"date":"2026-03-21T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214101\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:05:09","slug":"aus-expects-over-22000-departing-passengers-on-friday-asks-travelers-to-arrive-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/214101\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS expects over 22,000 departing passengers on Friday, asks travelers to arrive early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin airport is expecting over 22,000 departing passengers on Friday as the partial government shutdown continues.<\/p>\n<p>The Austin-Bergstrom International Airport recommends travelers to arrive 2.5 hours before domestic departures and three hours before international flights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/apd-officer-injured-suspect-in-custody-after-police-pursuit-spans-austin-into-cedar-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | APD officer injured, suspect in custody after police pursuit spans Austin into Cedar Park<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUS says that additional staff will be on-site to assist travelers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Austin\/comments\/1rysoec\/aut_tsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Users on the r\/Austin subreddit<\/a> are reporting that lines are not looking bad as of 5:30 a.m., with one user saying that it only took them seven minutes to go through general TSA screening.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Airport officials on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/aus-expects-28000-departing-travelers-wednesday-average-thursday-for-the-airport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">expected over 28,000 departing passengers following the end of SXSW.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin airport is expecting over 22,000 departing passengers on Friday as the partial government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-214101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}