TSA adds designated family security lanes at the Salt Lake City International Airport
Sep 11, 2025, 7:00 AM
Traveling family uses the new "Families on the Fly" TSA security lane at the Salt Lake City International Airport. (Derek Petersen/KSL TV)
(Derek Petersen/KSL TV)
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah families who love to travel will like what’s happening at the Salt Lake City International Airport. Families with young kids now have a dedicated security lane just for them. It’s expected to help families reduce the stress of going through security.
Lanes #14 and #15 at the Salt Lake City TSA security checkpoint are just for families with kids 12 years old and under. What’s different about them? TSA is staffing extra officers there who’ll help families handle all their belongings and guide families to keep parents and their kids together.
TSA feels that by pulling these families out of the regular security lanes and creating a screening area just for them, it will speed up security for everybody else and reduce the stress for parents feeling the pressure about everyone else behind them.
The lanes are called “Families on the Fly”. Some airports may have official signs showing you where to go. At the Salt Lake City airport, TSA will just guide to where to find them. TSA has actually been doing them in Salt Lake since July 18, 2025. TSA and families KSL talked to on Wednesday said they’ve been working really well.
“You notice the difference, when families are going through, it’s like they’re catered to, they have their own special lane,” said Dan Velez, Utah TSA Spokesperson.
“I like it, it makes it a lot smoother, easy … less stress, a lot more convenient,” said Casey Weaver, traveling Utah mother.
Right now the family lanes are only in 11 airports across the country. Salt Lake is one, Orlando is another, and so is the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California. That’s by design. TSA is rolling them out in cities that have a lot of young families like Salt Lake, or places where families travel to like Disneyland or Disney World.
Eventually, TSA tells KSL they plan to expand the family lanes to other airports nationwide, but they’re not ready to announce where or how many just yet. To learn more about “Families on the Fly,” click on the link to the TSA website.
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