Austin airport shares travel tips for spring, summer 2022

In an attempt to superior control the hectic vacation season, AUS shared suggestions for travellers.

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) shared travel strategies to assist travellers stay away from very long wait times pursuing prolonged TSA lines and rental automobile website traffic earlier this 7 days.

Twitter lit up with vacationers traveling out of the Austin airport reporting TSA strains that stretched exterior and rental cars and trucks deserted far from the fall-off space on Monday. 

The airport explained to KVUE in a assertion Wednesday that the airport carries on to see high volumes of passengers, primarily after occasions like Texas Relays, Dell Match Participate in, NASCAR and extra. 

In an try to far better deal with the hectic vacation year, AUS also shared strategies for travellers.

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Passenger journey

The airport advisable that tourists only bringing carry-on baggage get there at minimum two several hours in advance of their boarding time for domestic flights and three several hours just before their boarding time for international flights. 

Tourists examining baggage, traveling with compact children or in a massive team, and those people traveling out of the airport for the initially time in a though must give them selves excess time in addition to the 2- and 3-hour recommendation to make it to their gate on time.

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Flight verify-in

Travelers with out checked baggage can skip the airline ticket counters and head to protection screening checkpoints employing these solutions: 

  • Working with the lessen curbside and upper curbside for fall-off. From the lessen amount, passengers can speedily get upstairs to ticketing and safety by means of escalators and elevators.
  • Self-service flight check out-in kiosks that permit travelers to print their boarding passes and bag tags are available inside of the terminal, across from the airline ticket counters.
  • In addition to classic check out-in treatments, select airlines provide outdoors curbside test-in
  • Checking in for flights making use of airlines’ mobile app and a cell boarding pass

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TSA screening and packing

Staffing at safety screening checkpoints is the duty of the TSA, the airport stated. Checkpoints open up at 3:30 a.m. with TSA PreCheck and Obvious screening obtainable at Checkpoints 1 and 2 West. 

A new stability checkpoint near Southwest ticketing, Checkpoint 2 East, will be open up for the duration of peak travel intervals for all travellers likely through standard screening. All checkpoints guide to all gates and airlines in the Barbara Jordan Terminal.

See what can and can not be brought by way of TSA security here.

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Parking and passenger fall-off

The airport encourages drivers and passengers to “switch,” working with whichever amount has the least congestion for fall-off for departures. The airport reported travellers can rapidly get upstairs to ticketing and stability using escalators and elevators from the decreased arrivals degree. If the lower stage is congested, arriving travellers can use escalators and elevators to be picked up on the higher level.

Travelers hunting to park onsite can check out the airport parking web page to reserve a parking area and check out for true-time parking availability right before arriving at the airport.

For arriving passengers having picked up by rideshares, a tram service is readily available on the to start with flooring of the Red garage to choose passengers from the terminal to the rideshare decide-up space on the ground floor underneath the rental car or truck facility.

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Well being and safety

The TSA mask requirement for men and women throughout all transportation networks in the course of the U.S., like airports, has been prolonged by way of April 18, 2022. Travellers who do not comply with this mask prerequisite may be denied entry or boarding and could face civil penalties.

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Allegiant and Frontier vacationers

Vacationers flying with Allegiant and Frontier will depart from the South Terminal. All other airways run out of the most important Barbara Jordan Terminal. 

The two terminals are not linked and will have to be accessed separately. The South Terminal is located at 10000 Logistics Lane, close to US 183 and Burleson Street. If dropped off at the Barbara Jordan Terminal, travellers can use a shuttle bus, which picks up from the curb-facet departure amount, to get to the South Terminal.

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