Some US airports are dodging government shutdown chaos thanks to private TSA screening contractors who get paid despite the funding standoff.

At 20 airports in the United States, security screening is handled not by the Transportation Security Administration, but by private companies — and their checkpoints aren’t seeing long lines.

Saturday, March 21 is Sarasota airport’s busiest day of the year, with up to 16,000 departing passengers — nearly double the daily average of 8,020.

The Senate approved by unanimous consent Thursday a proposal to end the special treatment members of Congress get at airports that allows them to speed through or skip the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) screening checkpoints.

You might be spending a lot of your spring break traveling in a security check-in line. TSA workers are not getting paid because of the partial government shutdown and a lot of them have

While traveling with a heart monitor can present some challenges, there are things you can do before and during the TSA check to get through security smoothly.

Amid long waiting lines at airports, some travelers say they’re avoiding the worst delays by using TSA PreCheck Touchless ID. Airports continue to struggle with longer security lines during the partial government shutdown,