Upgrades at Atlanta’s Airport to Make TSA Lines Shorter

Long security line at the Atlanta airport

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport unveiled the completion of a $66-million project to shorten TSA screening times, just in time for the year’s remaining holidays.

The checkpoint lanes are said to allow 600 additional passengers to be screened each hour.

Hartsfield-Jackson, the central hub for Delta Air Lines, features more than 1,000 flights daily and serves passengers traveling to more than 200 destinations worldwide. Frontier and Southwest also consider the airport a focus city for their route networks.

The project began in May 2022 and was expected to take two years to complete, but officials said it was finished early. Included in the project was an overhaul of the screening equipment, integrating it with technology that is used at the south checkpoint.

In addition, 19 old security screening machines were replaced with Analogic CT machines. There were also ceiling and lighting enhancements—and modernization of related electrical and mechanical systems, a necessity at the busy hub, which is fast approaching its 100th anniversary.

For the upcoming holiday rush, the airport said that more than 3.3 million passengers are expected to pass through between December 22 and January 2, 2024.

AAA said the upcoming air travel holiday season may break records, with a projected 7.5 million people expected to fly between December 23 and January 1, 2024.