Airline Travelers In Boston Will Get To Go Through Security 22 Miles From The Airport
Jalopnik • • business
Key Points:
- Boston Logan International Airport is launching a pilot program allowing some passengers to clear TSA security at a remote facility 22 miles away in Framingham, Massachusetts, before taking a shuttle bus directly to the terminal.
- The remote check-in site, near the Logan Express shuttle service park-and-ride, will serve Delta and JetBlue passengers, offering full security screening, baggage check, and TSA PreCheck acceptance.
- Remote airport terminals were more common in the 1960s, such as those in Midtown Manhattan for LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark airports, but were phased out by the mid-1980s due to cost and changing travel patterns favoring suburban origins.
- With increasing passenger demand and congestion at major airports, the new remote screening initiative aims to reduce traffic and security line bottlenecks, echoing early Jet Age solutions to airport crowding.
- Other airports like LAX are also working on infrastructure improvements, such as the SkyLink automated people mover, though it is still undergoing testing with no confirmed public opening date.