But DIA’s passenger traffic also is growing quickly - it was up nearly 14% in March over the same month last year, and DIA’s holiday weekend travel projections were ahead of Memorial weekend last year by 9.4%, with summer travel projections trending high nationwide.ĭIA’s major airlines also are adding flights to take advantage of more than three dozen new gates it’s opened in recent years, promising growing numbers of passengers lining up. In some ways, the security checkpoints and lines are running more smoothly than in the past, thanks to revamps of the checkpoint setup and efforts to better direct passengers. During the spring, Roth said, the longest waits have not gotten longer than an hour or so. The busiest days at DIA typically are Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, with morning and late-afternoon peaks at security, ahead of banks of scheduled departures. Will its trains be able to handle the crush? RELATED: DIA is about to get busier (and more crowded) than ever before. The line for the checkpoint on the bridge to Concourse A stretched 66 minutes, she said.
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She had trouble finding the end of the snaking line and said she couldn’t find someone to direct her.Īubrey Roth, the airport’s terminal operations manager, acknowledged that her team and the Transportation Security Administration were caught a little off guard on two days at the end of that week, as seasonal checkpoint volumes surged a little sooner than expected.Īt one point, the line for the south main checkpoint, which is primarily for standard screening and is nearest to the Westin DIA Hotel and transit center, was backed up a full hour, she said, wrapping around the baggage claim and outside to the curb of the pick-up lanes. “I am still completely dumbfounded at how bad it was,” Minnesota resident Jill Burcum wrote in a recent letter to the editor published by The Denver Post about her experience flying out of DIA on a Friday two weeks ago. Some days will see 70,000 people screened, the airport says.Īnyone who’s been through lately knows the lines have been growing at the busiest times in recent weeks. Stress-inducing security waits long have been Denver International Airport’s most notorious feature, and they’re getting worse as the summer travel season begins.ĭIA forecasts that more than 400,000 passengers will pass through its three security checkpoints over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, from Thursday through Tuesday.
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