Man Sues TSA Over Missed Flight

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A man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sued the Transportation Security Administration last week for $506.85 after, he contends, long airport security lines caused him to miss a flight. Hooman Nikizad says he arrived two hours prior to departure for a flight bound from Minneapolis to Los Angeles but still had to wait more than 90 minutes to get through TSA security, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. As a result, he says, he had to purchase a new ticket. The $506.85 covers the cost of the new ticket, plus additional ground transportation expenses and a $75 court fee to file the lawsuit. “I had to buy a ticket with another airline to be able to make my destination and meet my obligations,” said Nikizad, a resident surgeon with the University of Minnesota, in his claim. Niizad’s complaint notes that despite a visit just eight days earlier from TSA head Peter Neffenger and a promise of improvement in security check times, the TSA had limited staff on duty and was using “only one body scanner for the regular security line.”

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