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Passengers Are Now Showing Up At Midnight For 6 A.M. Flights Thanks To TSA Mess [Roundup] by Gary Leff on March 29, 2026 News and notes from around the interweb: With TSA still in full meltdown in many places, people are showing up at the airport at midnight for 6 a.m. flights. Narrator: research what times the check-in counter and security checkpoints are even open before doing this! “midnight is wild for a 6am flight” is easy to say if you’ve never missed a flight or if you haven’t been paying attention to how bad security lines at JFK & other major airports around the country have gotten recently. …I’d rather be at my gate four hours early than be the person watching their flight leave without them. JFK, Terminal 5. Got here at midnight for a 6am flight. This is my experience. by u/Ok_Mention_6964 in JFKAirport “midnight is wild for a 6am flight” is easy to say if you’ve never missed a flight or if you haven’t been paying attention to how bad security lines at JFK & other major airports around the country have gotten recently. …I’d rather be at my gate four hours early than be the person watching their flight leave without them. “midnight is wild for a 6am flight” is easy to say if you’ve never missed a flight or if you haven’t been paying attention to how bad security lines at JFK & other major airports around the country have gotten recently. …I’d rather be at my gate...