DALDallas Love Field
How long is the TSA security line at Love Field (DAL) right now?
At 9:50 am Central every open standard lane at Love Field is 10 minutes or under. The longest standard line is Security Checkpoint, 1 min.
Wait time by checkpoint
| Checkpoint | Standard | PreCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Security Checkpoint | 1min | 0 to 1min |
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How busy Love Field security usually is
People screened per hour at each checkpoint, averaged over 175 days of TSA counts, 22 March to 24 October 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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checkpoint |
Tap a cell for its count.
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 6 am and the counts fall away after 6 pm. Checkpoint peaks at 6 am. TSA counts people, not minutes, so this shows when a checkpoint is loaded, not how long you will stand in it.
Which day Love Field is busiest
Thursday is Love Field's busiest day of the week, about 18,000 people screened on an average one, 56 percent more than Saturday, the quietest.
| Rank | Day | People a day | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thursday | 17,774 | 23 |
| 2 | Friday | 17,092 | 23 |
| 3 | Sunday | 15,945 | 23 |
| 4 | Wednesday | 15,052 | 25 |
| 5 | Monday | 14,899 | 23 |
| 6 | Tuesday | 12,560 | 23 |
| 7 | Saturday | 11,429 | 23 |
People screened at Love Field on an average day of each kind, from TSA's counts, 22 March to 24 October 2026, with the days around each holiday left out.
Which month Love Field is busiest
June was Love Field's busiest month in TSA's counts, about 16,000 people a day, 30 percent more than March, the quietest. October, the latest month counted, ran 3 percent below June.
| Rank | Month | People a day | Days counted |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June | 16,440 | 13 |
| 2 | July | 16,304 | 13 |
| 3 | May | 16,259 | 31 |
| 4 | October | 15,907 | 17 |
| 5 | September | 14,821 | 30 |
| 6 | April | 14,362 | 30 |
| 7 | August | 14,099 | 31 |
| 8 | March | 12,635 | 10 |
People screened at Love Field on an average day of each month, holidays included, from TSA's counts, 22 March to 24 October 2026. March, June, July, and October rest on 10, 13, 13, and 17 counted days.
How Love Field ran over the holidays
Each day around a holiday against the same day of the week in the three weeks either side, so the season does not read as the holiday. Thanksgiving and Christmas 2026 are not in TSA's counts yet; they run to 24 October 2026.
Memorial Day 2026
Thursday 21 to Tuesday 26 May: the busiest day was Thursday 21 May, 19,839 people, 9 percent above the Thursdays around it.
Labor Day 2026
Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 September: the busiest day was Friday 4 September, 19,334 people, 15 percent above the Fridays around it. Sunday 6 September was the lightest for its day of the week, 31 percent below the Sundays around it.
Questions people ask
How busy is Love Field airport today?
At 9:50 am Central every open standard lane at Love Field is 10 minutes or under. The longest standard line is Security Checkpoint, 1 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 6 am peak. On a normal day Love Field screens about 15,000 people, 44th of the 432 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 0 to 1 min. Standard lanes read 1 min. PreCheck is open at Security Checkpoint; check the sign above before walking to one.
Which Love Field checkpoint is fastest right now?
At 9:50 am Central the shortest standard line is at Security Checkpoint, 1 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 175 counted days, 22 March to 24 October 2026, Love Field checkpoints screened the most people at 6 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 175 counted days, 22 March to 24 October 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.
What is the busiest day of the week at Love Field?
Thursday is Love Field's busiest day of the week, about 18,000 people screened on an average one, 56 percent more than Saturday, the quietest. Averaged over 163 days of TSA counts, 22 March to 24 October 2026, with the days around each holiday left out.
Which month is busiest at Love Field?
June was Love Field's busiest month in TSA's counts, about 16,000 people a day, 30 percent more than March, the quietest. October, the latest month counted, ran 3 percent below June. Averaged over 175 days of TSA counts, 22 March to 24 October 2026. March, June, July, and October rest on 10, 13, 13, and 17 counted days.
How busy does Love Field get on a holiday weekend?
Memorial Day 2026, Thursday 21 to Tuesday 26 May: the busiest day was Thursday 21 May, 19,839 people, 9 percent above the Thursdays around it. Labor Day 2026, Thursday 3 to Tuesday 8 September: the busiest day was Friday 4 September, 19,334 people, 15 percent above the Fridays around it. Sunday 6 September was the lightest for its day of the week, 31 percent below the Sundays around it. Each day is set against the same day of the week in the three weeks either side. Thanksgiving and Christmas 2026 are not in TSA's counts yet; they run to 24 October 2026.
Other airports
Every covered airport, ranked by its line right now, is on the national page, with the airports that have no live number here under it. The busiest airports by people screened lists every code TSA counts.
ATL, BOS, BWI, CLE, CLT, DCA, DFW, DTW, EWR, IAH, JAX, JFK, LGA, MCO, MIA, MSP, PHL, PHX, PIT, SEA, SFO, 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 175 days of counts, 22 March to 24 October 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.