The signs inside Terminal B at Laguardia Airport stated in the story on Wednesday: “Real ID, Enhanced, Passport” with an arrow showing to the right and “everyone else” with an arrow that points to the left.
After years of warning and postponement, “everyone else” is no longer enough to make the airport security points. Travelers are now obliged to blink a federally compatible actual ID, a passport or other approved form of recognition to board domestic flights.
In Laguardia, the Waits were few and the entire security process took under five minutes in the afternoon and in the afternoon. Many passengers arrived in three hours earlier, offering warnings of delays or complications from actual ID development. A large number of employees of the safety administration, airport staff and police are frameing the security entrance, advising travelers to prepare their identifiers.
Arthur Perlman, 61, a former Queens teacher who described himself as “slightly worried”, came four hours earlier for his flight to Texas. He had recently taken an identity of the state and was supposed to be a true identity.
But he had no star or an American flag, which means he was not compatible. “A week ago. I thought about it and I went,” Oh my God! “, He said.” I did a reality check. “
He was briefly panicked, until he learned that a passport is also valid. He had brought this to Laguardia.
The actual imposition of identity comes after 15 years of delays guided by states’ concerns about privacy and sharp costs, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the warnings and postponements of the deadlines, the government is still struggling to persuade people to get real identifiers.
States reported different compliance rates with a real identity before Wednesday’s deadline. In California, it was over half of all driving licenses or identity cards. In Pennsylvania, it was 28 %.
Travelers also received mixed messages about what to expect at the airport’s security checkpoints when the deadline reached. While TSA repeatedly stated that the full enforcement would start on Wednesday, Kristi Noem, secretary of the internal security, said on Tuesday that travelers who did not have a real ID -compatible document would still be allowed to fly after additional viewing.
Anthony Harris, a 19 -year -old student at Hampton University in Virginia, had been thrown to Chicago International Midway Airport early Wednesday morning without real identifier.
Mr Harris, who had pulled an all-nighter to make his flight at 5:45 am, said he did not know the actual ID deadline when he arrived at the airport at 4am.
“It was from the look and out of the mind. It has been a moment since I went to the airport. So when I got there, I saw the signs and it was like,” Oh, it’s 7 May, “he said.
He is allowed through security after being passed by additional viewing, but a TSA agent gave him a warning warning, “the identity you have presented is not real compatible with ID”.
Inside the busy terminal at Newark Liberty International Airport, where equipment failures and air traffic control issues caused more than a week of long delays, the security lines are moving quite quickly, with average waiting times falling in the morning and falling in the morning. Neither Terminal A nor T terminal C seem to have separate lines for travelers whose documents do not comply with true identity.
Several travelers said they were more concerned about the news that air traffic controllers coordinated airplanes in Newark had briefly lost contact with airplanes last week, urging some of the auditors to get permission from work.
“It’s not so much delays, it was security,” said Marty Springer, a New Jersey resident who was flying to San Francisco using his passport. He had not yet been able to obtain a real ID. New Jersey has one of the lowest real identity rates in the country, with only 17 % of IDs according to information in line with last week.
Thomas Carter, TSA’s Federal Security Director for New Jersey, told reporters on Wednesday at Newark Airport that the development of real identity was “smooth”, despite the low compliance rate of New Jersey.
He said there was no fixed timetable for when TSA would strictly enforce the law on real identity, adding that growth was in “Phase 1.” He said that the organization would analyze the data next week or so to find out how much enhanced projection it does for travelers without real identifier before deciding how to proceed.
“It could eventually get to the point where, if you don’t, you might not be able to pass,” he said.
TSA said in a press release on Wednesday that it plans to carry out additional views for travelers without a real identity “until no longer be considered susceptibility.”
It was not clear how many travelers without real identifiers faced additional viewing on Wednesday and exactly what this view was. At airports in all the United States, including Laguardia and Oakland International in California, travelers said they were passing on standard IDs without dealing with additional identity verification.
Pierre Stewart brought the standard driving license and a passport that ended to board his flight from Auckland to Los Angeles for a Beyoncé concert. He pulled out for additional viewing, he said, but “it was a breeze”. It was not disputed.
The agent simply gave him a notice of the true identity. “I showed him my identity and I was away from him within 15 seconds,” he said.
Some travelers went largely to comply. Brian Zaben, who was flying from Laguardia back home in Chicago on Wednesday, said that when he realized in panic that he had no real identity, he asked his wife to Fedex his passport in New York. He arrived just more than two hours before his flight at 4:20 pm
The New York and New Jersey Port Authority, which exploits Newark, Laguardia and Kennedy, among other regional airports, said it had increased staffing and worked to raise awareness of its audience.
This staff was clear in Laguardia, where the police officers of the Internal Security Department were close to the security entrance. They repeatedly asked travelers to prepare their identifiers, while guiding them at the checkpoint and on the different lines.
Claire Brady, 27, of Dallas, who had brought her passport to Laguardia, said the increased government presence felt weird. He scored the cold result he could have in the midst of the current climate of increased deportations and travelers held for challenge at airports.
Other travelers expressed reservations about true identity and confusion for its purpose
Billy Fraser, a 42 -year -old sound engineer flying from Chicago in the middle of the road, said he was planning to keep a real identifier for as much as possible.
“Whatever the true identity, it sounds bad and something I don’t like,” said Fraser, who brought his passport.
Santy Moreno, 19, of Queens, who also holds us on Colombian passports, said he brought both to Laguardia. He said he knew many people who were scared to get and show, various American identifiers. Real identifiers are only available for US citizens and people who are legally present in the United States.
“We just have to live with it, live with what the president or the country gives us,” he said.
Demand for real ids has increased as the deadline has been ratified, leading to large lines and frustration. On Tuesday, the day before the imposition deadline, Juanita Yost, 53, waited for the real supercenter in downtown Chicago to apply with two of her children.
Mrs Yost, a nurse, said she was going on vacation in a few weeks, and her daughter, a college student, was planning to fly to Minnesota soon.
It was their third attempt to get real identifiers. Had previously been removed because they did not have the required documents. “Yesterday it was frozen, and we arrived here at 9am and we didn’t enter until 1 pm,” Yost said. “They didn’t communicate anything well.”
Finally, after about four hours, they had completed the application process shortly before the center for the day closed. The only catch? Their new cards will have to take about two weeks to reach the post office.
Christine Chung and Nate schweber Reported by Laguardia Airport, Michael Levenson by Newark Liberty International Airport, Robert Chiarito from Chicago International Airport and Chicago International Airport O’Hare and Murphy Marcos corals from Oakland International Airport.
