Overview
- Terminal A‑West, which resumed screening at 5 a.m. Friday, advances PHL’s phased restart with Terminal C back since Thursday and Terminal F set to reopen Tuesday, April 7.
- Airport officials say all terminals are reachable after security and they published checkpoint hours, with Terminal C operating PreCheck-only during posted hours.
- Early Friday, the airport’s wait-time tracker showed short lines at most checkpoints as operations continued to stabilize.
- Local TSA officers began receiving back pay this week after more than a month without pay during the partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown that drove staffing shortages.
- PHL advises travelers to check checkpoint hours and use any open lane to reach their gate, and past ICE deployments to airports including Philadelphia drew protests during the pay freeze.