DALDallas Love Field
How long is the TSA security line at Love Field (DAL) right now?
At 9:40 am Central every open standard lane at Love Field is 10 minutes or under. The longest standard line is Security Checkpoint, 2 min.
Wait time by checkpoint
| Checkpoint | Standard | PreCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Security Checkpoint | 2min | 3min |
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How busy Love Field security usually is
People screened per hour at each checkpoint, averaged over 133 days of TSA counts, 22 March to 5 September 2026. Green is that checkpoint's quiet hours, red its peak. Find your checkpoint and look along the row for green.
| Checkpoint | 4a | 6a | 8a | 9 am, now | 10a | 12p | 2p | 4p | 6p | 8p | 10p | |||||||||
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| Checkpoint |
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Quiet for this checkpointIts busiest hourclosed or no count
On the counted days Love Field screened passengers from 4 am to 8 pm. Across Love Field the busiest hour is 5 am and the counts fall away after 6 pm. Checkpoint peaks at 5 am. TSA counts people, not minutes, so this shows when a checkpoint is loaded, not how long you will stand in it.
Questions people ask
How busy is Love Field airport today?
At 9:40 am Central every open standard lane at Love Field is 10 minutes or under. The longest standard line is Security Checkpoint, 2 min. By TSA's counts 9 am is usually one of the busiest hours at Love Field, about 1,000 people an hour across its checkpoints against 1,200 at the 5 am peak. On a normal day Love Field screens about 15,000 people, 44th of the 431 airports TSA counts; its largest checkpoint is Checkpoint.
Does PreCheck have a shorter line at Love Field?
Right now PreCheck lanes at Love Field read 3 min. Standard lanes read 2 min. PreCheck is open at Security Checkpoint; check the sign above before walking to one.
Which Love Field checkpoint is fastest right now?
At 9:40 am Central the shortest standard line is at Security Checkpoint, 2 min. The sign above lists every checkpoint and lane the airport publishes, longest and shortest alike.
How current is this number?
Dallas Love Field publishes the Love Field wait times at dallas-lovefield.com and waittimes.io reads them every 10 minutes. The time on the sign is the last read, in Central time. A number older than 30 minutes says so, and a feed silent for 2 hours shows when it last published instead of a number. Nothing here is predicted.
When is TSA security at Love Field quietest?
Over the 133 counted days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, Love Field checkpoints screened the most people at 5 am. The counts fall away after 6 pm. Each row of the map above is one checkpoint scaled to its own peak, so its green hours are the ones to aim for. Counts say when a checkpoint is loaded, not how long the line is.
What time does TSA open at Love Field?
Over the 133 counted days, 22 March to 5 September 2026, Love Field screened passengers from 4 am to 8 pm. These are the hours TSA counted people, not Love Field's published checkpoint hours. Check the airport's own page before an early flight.
Other airports
Every covered airport, ranked by its line right now, is on the national page, with the airports that publish no live number under it. The busiest airports by people screened lists every code TSA counts.
ATL, BOS, BWI, CLE, CLT, DCA, DFW, DTW, EWR, IAH, JFK, LGA, MCO, MIA, MSP, PHL, PHX, PIT, SEA, SLC
Where the numbers come from
- Wait times
- Published by Dallas Love Field at dallas-lovefield.com. We read the page every 10 minutes and show the time of the last read. A reading older than 30 minutes is marked as such.
- Usual busyness
- TSA's own hourly passenger counts per checkpoint, published weekly in its FOIA reading room. This page uses 133 days of counts, 22 March to 5 September 2026. Public domain.
- Who reads them
- Arcane Digital, which runs waittimes.io, reads every feed every 10 minutes with its own collector and stores the time of each read. The day's reads are checked every night for a feed that has stopped or thinned, and one person reads that report the next morning. Nobody types a number in.
- What we never do
- Predict a wait in minutes, or show an old number as if it were current.
- Every feed
- How each one is read, the TSA counts and who to write to: the sources page.