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[...] The TSA has about 42,000 officers on the job, down from 47,000 in 2013, while the annual volume of passengers has risen from 643 million to 740 million during those years, Cox said. [...]

Seattle wait times are approaching 90 minutes (personal experience)

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Seattle recently hired a bunch of private contractors, partially to serve as more warm bodies, and partially to put the TSA on notice that they can be replaced.

Anecdotally, I went through Seattle TSA at about 6am on the 3rd of this month, and wait times were under fifteen minutes.

Went thru both Bos and Sfo recently. Waits were under 15 mins for mid morning flights. Looks like they've improved since their horrendous peaks.

SFO doesn't use TSA, they have a private firm doing security. Not sure about Boston.

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