Well back in the good old days when I worked for Cargill and the PAF room was next to security 6 and they let non-business travellers in...I got a pass many times with little to no hassle (sometimes 2-3 for the wife or kids) to see my parents on their layover from small town Michigan to Arizona.

I have not tried since changing jobs or when they downgraded the PAF room to business travel only and made it shell of what it was.

I guess this year, if I'm in town and they fly Delta I'll try to travel on the same day as them.

Of course, Delta doesnt seem to give them many MSP connection options anymore (all via Atlanta), so I expect they will fly through Chicago on United or the like.

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*PAF room is for certain preferred accounts like Cargill, 3M, etc in the twin cites.