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TSA beefing up security at New Orleans airport for Super Bowl traffic
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is doubling its number of security lanes at New Orleans, La.'s Louis Armstrong International Airport to handle post-Super Bowl traffic, a spokesman for the agency said Tuesday.
New Orleans media outlets reported before the game that the airport was expecting as many as 50,000 passengers to pass through on Monday, which would be a single-day record for the airport.
TSA's spokesman for the southeast region, Jon Allen, tweeted Tuesday that the agency was beefing up its presence at the New Orleans airport to handle the increased Super Bowl traffic.
"TSA is operating 25 checkpoint lanes today at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (that's 11 additional lanes)," tweeted Allen, who is responsible for the TSA's operations in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
