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[arethinn]

The TSA's wait time calculator is apparently not available right now. Does anyone else know where I can get a clue how long the average waits are at a given airport?

Recent anecdotal evidence about SJC's Terminal A also accepted, where "recent" is defined as "since the opening of Terminal B and rearranging of airlines", especially if you were going through whatever security area serves Continental (although I hear now they are doing all gates "catch as catch can" and not assigning fixed ranges to the various airlines looks like there's only one checkpoint in Terminal A. Um).

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[feyandstrange]

It's gonna vary wildly by time of day, weekday, and so on, and that isn't even allowing for the tifferent flavors of lines, any express passes, et cetera. The airport's Web site or the airline might be able to give you a better estimate, but I'd allow for the worst possible just in case.

[arcanetrivia]

It's gonna vary wildly by time of day, weekday, and so on

Well, yeah (and of course you generally plan worst-case) - that was the thing, their wait time calculator allowed you to pick a day of the week and a time of day and gave you actual recent averages for a given checkpoint at a given airport. I used to use it to marvel at how much faster the checkpoint I went through to get on Air Canada was compared to one just down Terminal C which served some other airlines. 'Course now Terminal A has just the one checkpoint anyway, and it wasn't too bad.

[arcanetrivia]

Er, wait - I'm thinking of San Francisco when comparing Air Canada's area and other-random-airlines' area. Still though, I used to use the calculator for that.