by Donald Wood
Last updated: 10:05 AM ET, Thu December 14, 2023
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport unveiled
the completion of a $66-million project to shorten TSA screening times, just in
time for the year's remaining holidays.
The checkpoint lanes are said to allow 600 additional
passengers to be screened each hour.
Hartsfield-Jackson, the central hub for Delta Air Lines,
features more than 1,000 flights daily and serves passengers traveling to more
than 200 destinations worldwide. Frontier and Southwest also consider the
airport a focus city for their route networks.
The project began in May 2022 and was expected to take two
years to complete, but officials said it was finished early. Included in the
project was an overhaul of the screening equipment, integrating it with
technology that is used at the south checkpoint.
In addition, 19 old security screening machines were
replaced with Analogic CT machines. There were also ceiling and lighting
enhancements—and modernization of related electrical and mechanical systems, a
necessity at the busy hub, which is fast approaching its 100th anniversary.
For the upcoming holiday rush, the airport said that more
than 3.3 million passengers are expected to pass through between December 22
and January 2, 2024.
AAA said the upcoming air travel holiday season may break records,
with a projected 7.5 million people expected to fly between December 23 and January
1, 2024.
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