The Atlanta-based airline is granting travel waivers this week because of the ongoing TSA staffing crisis affecting its hometown hub.

The AJC is on the ground at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport with the latest on what's happening.

The conservative think tank Competitive Enterprise Institute posted that the partial government shutdown woes “show why it is time to privatize TSA.”

At about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, employees estimated standard wait times were about 2 1/2 hours. Some travelers breezed through checkpoints today with no wait at all.

The White House deployed ICE officers to help unpaid TSA workers, but they aren’t trained to actually help with security screening.

If you have time to fill at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, check out the AJC's recommendations for where to eat and drink.

The Atlanta airport's international terminal checkpoint has sometimes been seen as a shortcut around domestic security lines. But recent woes have shown it is complicated.

One traveler’s horror story of waiting in line for nine hours as the partial government shutdown continues to disrupt TSA operations.

The lines were very, very long in Atlanta at the world's busiest airport on the busiest day of the week. But there also was hope, and camaraderie, and a good cheeseburger.

As early as 5:30 a.m. Monday, an airport employee estimated it could take travelers at least four hours to get through TSA checkpoints.