Originally Posted by Cass314

Half a dozen standbys got on my flight each way for Thanksgiving (Wednesday afternoon and Sunday morning). The gate area was so dead on Wednesday that there were a handful of seats at the only bar past that security checkpoint for the entire time I was there. (The only ride I could get to the airport dropped me off at 12:30 for a 4:30 flight, so I had a while).

On Sunday the airport was a little less dead, but it still wasn't exactly crowded. The security line seemed slow, but once I got to the front it turned out it wasn't people or the scanners (which weren't being used); they must have had a new hire working the baggage x-ray, because she'd stop and yell "bag check" every two or three bags, another person would come over, they'd pull the bag, put it back through the machine, and the second person would point out how it was just a hairbrush or something. It still only took about 15 minutes to get to my gate.