No no no...you never, ever mention to a TSO that you "don't want to miss your flight"...isn't that the ticket to wind up in handcuffs while the TSOs and police detain you for having Arabic flash cards or checks written to yourself, which they assume you're using to empty the bank account ahead of your surprise divorce, so they call your spouse to rat you out? (Note: both of these happened at PHL).
Hopefully, I won't even need to give an answer. If asked, I'll simply say I have a favorite restaurant in that terminal, and it was just more convenient to use it.
Originally Posted by
goalie
Or you can say that the line at your airline's terminal was huge, this terminal's line was much shorter and you didn't want to miss your flight on account of the very long line.