NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Passengers flying out of Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Sunday (March 8) were advised to arrive at least three hours before flights because of security line delays.
The airport attributed the unusually long lines to the partial federal government shutdown affecting the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration. It said the airport was caught Sunday facing a “shortage of workers” from the TSA, whose agents are working without pay during the shutdown.
“I feel bad for them, but they need to get this fixed. This is not acceptable,” one traveler told Fox 8…