{"id":662686,"date":"2026-03-17T19:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/662686\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:27:16","slug":"phl-airport-to-close-2-more-tsa-checkpoints-due-to-staffing-constraints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/662686\/","title":{"rendered":"PHL Airport to close 2 more TSA checkpoints due to staffing constraints"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\"><strong>PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> &#8211; According to the Philadelphia International Airport\u2019s website, starting Wednesday, March 18, checkpoints at Terminals A-West and F will shut down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The news comes less than one week after the airport TSA closed Terminal C due to a staff shortage prompted by\u00a0the ongoing partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;Due to staffing constraints related to the government shutdown, the TSA, in collaboration with the airport, is temporarily closing the Terminal C checkpoint,&#8221; Redfern told FOX 29 News.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The A-East, B and D\/E checkpoints are still open, and all terminals are open for flights.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">For more information on the terminals&#8217; hours of operations, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phl.org\/flights\/security-information\/checkpoint-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PHL Airport&#8217;s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">It is unclear when the terminal checkpoints will reopen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">This is a developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information from the Philadelphia International Airport&#8217;s website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/transportation\/phl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia International Airport<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; According to the Philadelphia International Airport\u2019s website, starting Wednesday, March 18, checkpoints at Terminals A-West and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":662687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,50,1448,2830,1311,174651,522,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-662686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-phl","tag-transportation","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116246167443180159","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}