Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport Security Wait Times (CHA): Live Now

On a typical day

~12 min through security at CHA, from our airport directory. Early mornings and holiday weekends run longer.

Budget that on top of check-in or bag drop and the walk to your gate. For your exact leave-home time, enter your flight above: the plan uses the live wait when there is one.

Official leftover 2 hours; checkpoint leftover closes 1 hour after the last departure. Official leftover is to arrive two hours before departure. Official leftover bags must be at the ticket counter no later than 45 minutes out.

How to get through faster at CHA

Two hours; leftover checkpoint closes 1 hour after the last departure
Official clock 2 hours. Official leftover peak 5:00–8:00 a.m. EST weekdays, leftover 20 / 10 minutes. Official leftover bags 45 minutes out.
Empty the bottle at TSA. Official leftover printed bottles sit at Skyline Views Express before the checkpoint (Dasani $4.09 / FIJI 500 ml $4.99). Official CHA pages do not map a bottle-filling station. Past TSA, leftover Tailwind on C and Skyline Views on E are the leftover shops.
One civil terminal on Airport Road. Official leftover: ticketing and the checkpoint in the same hall, then leftover Concourse C or Concourse E. Official pages do not print a live airline-to-gate map — read FIDS.

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