CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its hours at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport ahead of the busy summer travel season.
Jessica Mayle, a spokesperson for TSA, said the expanded hours aren’t a result of long wait times in Cleveland. Rather, she said, they’re based on airline schedules. “Many airports across the country are seeing their checkpoints open earlier to accommodate the additional flights that are taking off this summer,” she said.
So far this year, passenger traffic is up 8% over a year ago, and 3% over 2019, before the COVID pandemic, when more than 10 million people traveled through Cleveland Hopkins. In addition, Sun Country Airlines just launched new service from Hopkins to Minneapolis-St. Paul, becoming the 11th carrier to fly from Cleveland.