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Lines growing at airports

Travelers move through a security checkpoint line at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in Atlanta. Fliers should brace for long waits at airport security over the Memorial Day weekend. Some major airports were previously seeing wait times exceeding 90 minutes at peak hours, and now the unofficial start of summer is here. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Travelers move through a security checkpoint line at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, in Atlanta. Fliers should brace for long waits at airport security over the Memorial Day weekend. Some major airports were previously seeing wait times exceeding 90 minutes at peak hours, and now the unofficial start of summer is here. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

The head of the Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday the beleaguered agency will add 768 new screeners by mid-June to deal with increasingly long airport security lines that have caused passengers to miss flights even before the busy summer travel season.Peter Neffenger told a House committee that a combination of factors contributed to the added waiting time to pass through security screening: more people are flying this year and fewer people than anticipated have applied for the government's PreCheck program, which expedites screening for those who have submitted to a background check and pay an $85 fee/CBS News. More here.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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