What kinds of updates appear on TravelTSA?

TravelTSA updates include airport coverage changes, source reliability improvements, flight and leave-time features, and trust or freshness improvements across the product.

How often does TravelTSA change airport coverage?

TravelTSA expands or adjusts airport coverage when official airport sources are available and stable enough to support trustworthy wait-time reporting or checkpoint-hours guidance.

Where should I go after reading TravelTSA updates?

After reading the updates page, the best next step is usually to open a live airport guide, compare airport collections, or use the flight and leave-time tools for an upcoming trip.

What's new

What's New

The latest TravelTSA releases, airport additions, and product improvements.

Back to live waits

Platform

Live

Production hosting, scheduled refreshes, and resilient backend services.

Coverage

27 airports

Tracked across live waits and checkpoint-hours coverage.

Flight tools

Smarter timing

Flight lookup, urgency guidance, and leave-time planning.

v1.8Apr 6, 2026Latest

Release focus

Airport-Specific PreCheck SEO Expansion

Added airport-specific TSA PreCheck landing pages and stronger internal-link paths so travelers can land on more exact airport-and-lane intent pages.

Added dedicated TSA PreCheck pages for every covered airport with airport-specific metadata, schema, FAQ content, and direct links back into the main airport guides.

Expanded internal linking so airport guides, the TSA PreCheck hub, and the sitemap now all point into the new airport-level PreCheck surfaces.

Strengthened TravelTSA's search coverage for airport-plus-PreCheck queries without relying on thin duplicate pages or generic keyword stuffing.

v1.7Apr 6, 2026

Release focus

Search, Schema, and Audience Logging

Strengthened technical SEO, expanded structured data, and improved audience logging so TravelTSA can measure traffic sources more clearly going forward.

Added richer sitewide and page-level schema, including stronger homepage search markup, regional-guide FAQ coverage, and a more structured updates page.

Cleaned up metadata and internal search behavior so key landing pages have clearer titles, descriptions, canonicals, and a working homepage query parameter flow.

Expanded audience tracking and reporting to capture top paths, referrer hosts, and campaign tags, while keeping ALB and CloudFront log delivery enabled for forward-looking traffic analysis.

v1.6Mar 25, 2026

Release focus

Trust, Freshness, and Personalized Planning

Added stronger trust signals, more explainable leave-time recommendations, and saved traveler profile inputs.

Added trust and freshness badges across airport views so users can see exact source status, fetch age, and planning confidence more clearly.

Expanded flight timing with saved traveler-profile inputs like checked bags, family travel, and parking or rental-car overhead.

Added recommendation explainability so leave-time guidance now shows the actual timing components behind the recommendation.

v1.5Mar 25, 2026

Release focus

Coverage, Quality, and Reliability

Expanded to 27 tracked airports, tightened the mobile experience, and hardened the live service surface.

Expanded tracked airport coverage to 27 major airports, with live wait times where airports publish them and checkpoint-hours coverage where they do not.

Improved the homepage around nearest-airport decisions, cleaned up mobile layouts, and fixed clearer source messaging for airports that are not publishing live waits.

Hardened the backend by closing exposed API docs, reducing error-detail leakage, and locking the direct API load balancer down to CloudFront-only origin traffic.

v1.4Mar 25, 2026

Release focus

Smart Timing

Smarter pre-departure guidance, clearer wait messaging, and better checkpoint context.

Added leave-time planning using flight schedule, TSA conditions, airport size, and domestic or international buffers.

Introduced urgency states like Plenty of time, Get moving, Leave now, and Risky.

Added connection-mode handling, checkpoint-aware flight cards, and clearer no-live-wait messaging.

v1.3Mar 25, 2026

Release focus

Flight Lookup

Flight-number lookup with route-aware TSA context and richer carrier details.

Users can search flights by number and see departure and arrival airport wait context.

Added richer carrier information and airline branding support.

Integrated airport context directly into the main search experience.

v1.2Mar 25, 2026

Release focus

Coverage Expansion

Expanded coverage beyond the original airport set with six new major airports.

New airports: ORD, BOS, IAD, LAS, SAN, and SFO.

Expanded public coverage from 20 to 26 airports.

Normalized each new airport to official public-facing source links.

v1.1Mar 24, 2026

Release focus

Airport Recovery

Recovered the original airport network and upgraded weak sources to stable direct feeds where possible.

Brought the original 20-airport set fully online with direct or hardened source integrations.

Replaced raw endpoint links in the UI with official airport source pages.

Improved source reliability so unavailable values show as source-side gaps instead of false failures.

v1.0Mar 24, 2026

Release focus

Platform Launch

Ported the original project off CodeWords and shipped the first TravelTSA production release.

Rebuilt the public product with production hosting, scheduled refreshes, and a resilient backend foundation.

Launched TravelTSA as a standalone public site with live airport security wait coverage.

Removed CodeWords runtime dependencies and replaced them with production-ready infrastructure and secrets management.