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You are allowed to bring food in your carryon just not liquids.

And isn’t the “waiting two hours an exaggeration”?

I flew out of MCO (Orlando) around spring break and while it was hectic, it wasn’t that bad just looking at the line. Of course I fly enough that having Clear and TSA pre-check makes sense.

I flew out of Atlanta - the busiest airport in the US for years and it didn’t take me that long to get through TSA even without PreCheck

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Atlanta is my home airport, and I can assure you that two hours worst case may be on the short side.

Without going back and forth with anecdotes. This is data

https://www.ifly.com/hartsfield-jackson-atlanta-internationa...

It took me 90 minutes to get through TSA in LAX recently. It split into two lines and the side I chose was moving sooo slowly compared to the other line. The person checking ID's was making small talk with every single person before letting them move along.

Briefly chatting with someone is a good way to pick up on whether they're relaxed and behaving normally or tense and secretive. It's probably a far more useful security measure than checking shoes or limiting liquids.

MCO can and does get very congested. Your one-off anecdotal experience is not representative, I promise you. That said, they are kind of addressing the congestion with that new terminal.

Again we have data

https://www.ifly.com/orlando-international-airport/wait-time...

I realize data is somewhat open to interpretation... to me, seeing a ~30 min wait in the middle of April is a bad omen. I think we should also consider that most airports are probably not congested outside of certain "rush hours". So what does it mean to be congested? What's the benchmark we're aiming for?

What do you consider rush hour? The website I cited lets you choose a time.

Well myself personally, I fly enough that it makes sense to have TSA PreCheck and Clear. But I wanted to find more relevant data than my anecdote - ie a few people in the Clear line and skipping to the front of TSA.

I want to use this website to see what it thinks MCO was like when I was there last, because I suspect it will say it wasn't as congested as it was, but it doesn't seem to let me see historical data. How are you seeing historical data?

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