United adds TSA wait times to its mobile app

United adds TSA wait times to its mobile app
A person in an airport next to their suitcase checks their phone.

If you're flying United Airlines you'll now have a better idea of when you need to get to the airport to make your flight. Yesterday the airline announced several updates to its iOS and Android mobile apps including estimated security wait times at all of United's US hub airports as a result of the ongoing partial government shutdown that left TSA agents unpaid and checkpoints understaffed.

That includes airports in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York / Newark, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, and both standard security and TSA PreCheck lineups.

Other features that will benefit flyers on travel day include personalized turn- …

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