Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Any updates about how bad the lines are?
Originally Posted by
CarmenOM
I was at MSP from 4-8 today (Sunday). While there were a couple of lulls, during much of the time the regular (non PreCheck, non CLEAR) lines were all the way back to the Delta baggage drop area, with three areas with mazes to wind the lines back and forth. The lines always moved fast, but they were soooooo long. The lines never looked bad at the PreCheck South checkpoint. When I checked at North, the CLEAR and SkyPriority lines were not long, but I heard that there were times during the day when the SkyPriority/First Class/OAL elite line was long. A separate wheelchair entrance has been added at North, so that passengers in wheelchairs do not enter the SkyPriority line.
The Delta bag drop line was also very long. For reasons I did not determine, Delta closed the self-check area around 6pm, which added to the regular bag drop line.
This weekend was heavy end-of-the-summer travel for many people as a lot of schools and universities start classes next week. But there is still Labor Day weekend......
Originally Posted by
vike16
I went through the standard line around 3:40 pm today, took all of about 15 minutes to get through from the beginning until I got through security, which meant I killed an hour at my gate waiting for boarding to begin. I did see where the line was really long behind me so I may have gotten lucky with the timing.
I went through PreCheck around 3pm yesterday. Took 15 minutes with a growing line behind me, however they also opened up a 3rd baggage screening lane right as I was going through, so that presumably caught them back up; they're definitely paying attention to it. Actually the supervisor was reconfiguring pylons to get the line out of the lobby/blocking the arrivals door (4B, 5A?); he commented his job was to make sure the lines didn't appear too bad. I was tempted to make a comment about keeping the pressure from the media off, but yielded to my better judgement.