This week is a busy travel period. Sunday evening, I flew from Houston to Phoenix. Monday afternoon, I spoke at the Arizona State FedSoc chapter on a panel about antisemitism. Tomorrow, I have a FedSoc double-header in North Carolina: UNC Law at lunchtime and Duke Law in the evening. And Wednesday I am speaking to the Triangle Lawyer's Chapter in Raleigh. I fly back to Houston on Wednesday.
As you may have heard, airports are a bit of a mess now. Fortunately, so far I have avoided the mess.
On Sunday, I was closely tracking the wait times at various check points at IAH. For a brief period, the Pre-Check line was open at Terminal A with a short wait. Even though my flight was out of Terminal C, I could easily connect via the Skyway. My Uber driver took me to Terminal A. But there was so much traffic we couldn't make it up the ramp. (The backup was due to people spilling out of the terminal onto the street.) So I hopped out of the car, got my suitcase from the trunk, and walked into the garage. On the ground floor of the airport there was this massive queue. A signed indicated the wait from that point was more than two hours. I did not get on that line, knowing the Pre-Check line was shorter. I walked around baggage claim, and up a different escalator that took me to the departures area. Because I had TSA Touchless ID, I had no wait at all. I was through security in about a minute, even as posted wait times stretched three hours.
