About TravelTSA
An independent tool for the last hour before a flight.
TravelTSA was built because the information travelers actually need before heading to the airport — live security waits, realistic leave-times, checkpoint hours, and route-aware flight context — is scattered across airport websites, carrier apps, and social posts. This site pulls those signals into one place, respects the source, and refuses to make up numbers when there is nothing to report.
What the product stands for
Four non-negotiables
Live signal
Real source, not estimates
Every checkpoint wait on TravelTSA comes from the airport's own published page. We do not invent numbers when a source is silent.
Refresh cadence
Fresh every two minutes
The scraper refreshes the live envelope every two minutes and surfaces a per-airport freshness timestamp so you can see exactly how current a reading is.
Decision-first
Built for 'when should I leave?'
The product is organized around the last high-stress hour before departure — live waits, airport access friction, and route-aware flight context — not around generic travel content.
Independent
Not affiliated with TSA
TravelTSA is an independent traveler tool. We are not the Transportation Security Administration. We do not sell or store personal trip data.
Coverage
27 U.S. airports tracked today
Coverage expands only when the airport publishes a source we can read reliably. Each guide page links back to the exact airport page we monitor so you can audit the signal yourself.
Read more
Where the numbers come from, and the rules we follow
Methodology
How TravelTSA collects data
Sources, refresh cadence, how we handle outages, and what we refuse to guess at.
Status
Live scraper health
Per-airport freshness chips and the service-level signals behind the live board.
Privacy
What we do and don't collect
Anonymous usage signals, no accounts, no selling of your data. Full details inside.