2026年3月8日 20:53 UTC（格林尼治标准时间）/路透社
华盛顿/新奥尔良，3月8日（路透社） – 周日，由于美国运输安全管理局（TSA）工作人员缺勤增加，加之春假旅行潮来袭，部分美国机场的安检队伍等待时间延长至三小时。
休斯顿霍比机场周日某时段平均等待时间达3个半小时，下午6点（格林尼治标准时间2300点）时平均等待时间为三小时。
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路易斯阿姆斯特朗新奥尔良国际机场周日建议乘客至少在计划起飞前三小时到达机场，并警告称本周剩余时间内延误可能持续。
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机场在社交媒体帖子中表示：”TSA在安检口面临人员短缺，导致队伍等待时间远超平均水平。”
即将返回波士顿的伊利亚娜·帕特森（Eliana Patterson）称，新奥尔良机场的安检队伍蜿蜒穿过航站楼，甚至延伸至出口外的附近停车场。”我的航班已经延误了，但如果没有延误的话，我可能会有点担心。”
TSA表示，休斯顿乔治·布什洲际机场、北卡罗来纳州夏洛特道格拉斯国际机场以及亚特兰大哈茨菲尔德-杰克逊国际机场也报告了超出平均水平的等待时间。
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周日，多个机场报告TSA工作人员缺勤率高于正常水平。
2月13日，由于国会未能就民主党要求的移民执法改革达成协议，美国国土安全部（DHS）资金中断。这导致包括TSA在内的多个政府机构运营资金停发，约5万名TSA机场安检人员无薪工作。
国土安全部在一份声明中表示：”部分主要机场的旅客面临TSA安检队伍长达近三小时的情况，导致航班误机和高峰期大规模延误。”
周日，代表美国主要航空公司的一个团体表示，过长的安检队伍导致航班延误，乘客误机。
美国航空运输协会（Airlines for America）首席执行官克里斯·苏努努（Chris Sununu）称：”国会和政府必须紧急采取行动，达成协议重新开放国土安全部并结束此次停摆。美国的运输安全人员队伍对国家至关重要，不应被用作政治筹码。”
航空公司预计本春假旅行季将创纪录，预计将有1.71亿乘客出行，同比去年同期增长4%。
苏努努表示，春假旅行潮即将来临，而TSA工作人员将在3月13日迎来首次零薪水发放。
TSA最高官员哈·阮·麦克尼尔（Ha Nguyen McNeill）上月告诉国会，2025年10月和11月，约有1110名运输安全官员因43天政府停摆离职，离职人数较2024年同期增长超过25%。
华盛顿报道：David Shepardson，新奥尔良报道：David Geffen；编辑：Matthew Lewis和Edmund Klamann
Security lines hit three hours at some US airports as TSA absences rise
March 8, 2026 8:53 PM UTC / Reuters
WASHINGTON/NEW ORLEANS, March 8 (Reuters) – Waiting times in security lines at some U.S. airports extended to three hours on Sunday, as absences by Transportation Security Administration workers rose during a partial government shutdown and as spring-break travel increased.
Houston Hobby Airport at one point on Sunday reported lines averaging 3-1/2 hours, and at 6 p.m. (2300 GMT) the wait times averaged three hours.
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Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport advised passengers on Sunday to arrive at least three hours before their scheduled departure and warned delays could continue the rest of the week.
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“TSA is experiencing a shortage of workers at the security checkpoint, which is causing longer-than-average lines,” the airport said in a social media post.
Eliana Patterson, who was returning home to Boston, said security lines at the New Orleans airport snaked around the terminal and out an exit into a nearby parking lot. “My flight’s been delayed but if it hadn’t been I’d be a little worried.”
TSA said longer-than-average lines were also reported at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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Several airports reported higher-than-normal absences among TSA officials on Sunday.
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed on February 13 after Congress failed to reach a deal on immigration enforcement reforms demanded by Democrats. That halted operational funding for several government agencies, including the TSA, resulting in about 50,000 TSA airport security screeners working without pay.
“Travelers are facing TSA lines of up to nearly three hours long at some major airports, causing missed flights and massive delays during peak travel,” the DHS said in a statement.
On Sunday, a group representing major U.S. airlines said the long security lines were causing flights to be delayed and passengers to miss flights.
“Congress and the administration must act with urgency to reach a deal that reopens DHS and ends this shutdown. America’s transportation security workforce is too important to be used as political leverage,” said Chris Sununu, CEO of trade association Airlines for America.
Carriers are expecting a record-breaking spring travel period, with 171 million passengers expected to fly, up 4% over the same two-month period last year.
Spring-break travel will heat up just as TSA workers receive their first zero paycheck on March 13, Sununu said.
Ha Nguyen McNeill, the top official at the TSA, told Congress last month that around 1,110 transportation security officers left the TSA in October and November 2025 following a 43-day government shutdown, a more than 25% increase in departures compared with the same period in 2024.
Reporting by David Shepardson in Washington and David Geffen in New Orleans; Editing by Matthew Lewis and Edmund Klamann
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