SAN ANTONIO – The vacation weekend is rapidly approaching, and the Metropolis of San Antonio helps the general public put together for a stress-free journey expertise by sharing a couple of ideas!

The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) expects the heaviest visitors main into the vacation weekend with greater than 30,000 passengers between Thursday and Friday earlier than Labor Day, in line with a press launch.

With a rise from final 12 months’s passenger quantity, town shared a couple of tricks to ease your travels:

Verify Flight Standing On-line

Passengers are capable of test their flight standing earlier than they depart dwelling and obtain e mail alerts from the airline. Go to www.flysanantonio.com to test the standing of your flight.

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Print Your Boarding Go Early

Passengers can print boarding passes at dwelling or obtain them to their cell telephones earlier than they arrive or can use the handy airline check-in kiosk on the airport.

Parking

Availability: There are 8,991 parking areas between the Brief Time period (1,238), Lengthy Time period (5,305) and Financial system Tons [formerly Green/Red Lots] (2,448). The Financial system Lot is probably the most economical and it features a FREE shuttle service that runs each 6 minutes.

Park Help: Benefit from the Park Help System to information you to out there spots. As you enter the parking plaza, indicators point out the variety of out there parking areas throughout the Brief-Time period Parking Storage. Park Help makes use of a inexperienced gentle for out there spots, purple for unavailable, and blue for out there ADA/Handicapped parking. You’ll be able to go to the airport webpage or use the Park Help App and know the variety of out there parking areas earlier than you depart.

Checkpoint Line

Be prepared while you enter the checkpoint line. Have an appropriate ID and boarding move out and able to hand to the TSA officer.

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Use Your Time in Line Properly: Whereas within the safety checkpoint line, take away gadgets out of your pockets – corresponding to wallets, keys, lip balm, tissues and cell telephones – and place them into carry-on luggage as an alternative of placing gadgets from pockets instantly into.

Electronics bigger than a cellular phone — together with e-readers and tablets — have to be eliminated out of your carry-on bag and positioned in bins with nothing on high or beneath (this rule doesn’t apply to TSA Pre✓® passengers).

Firearms can’t go in a carry-on bag. Prohibited gadgets end in checkpoint delays. Obtain the free myTSA app that features the “What can I carry?” characteristic, permitting you to kind within the merchandise to seek out out if it could actually fly.

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Comply with the 3-1-1: Liquids, gels, and aerosols can’t exceed the 3-1-1 ounces rule in your carry-on bag. Let the TSA officer know instantly in case you are touring with bigger portions of medically obligatory liquids.

TSA Cares

Vacationers or households of passengers with disabilities and medical circumstances can name the TSA Cares helpline toll-free at 1-855-787-2227 with questions or for help 72 hours previous to touring. Injured service members and veterans could contact TSA Cares to assist facilitate the screening course of.

Wheelchair Help: In case you are touring with somebody who wants wheelchair help, contact the airline earlier than arriving on the airport.

Aira Availability: Aira is out there to all blind or vision-impaired vacationers freed from cost at SAT. Aira permits customers to make use of their cell telephones, or specifically designed glasses for subscribers, to have an off-site agent information them by the airport, this will embody finding a restroom, navigating busy terminals or discovering a spot to loosen up – all designed to return independence to our visually impaired passengers. Please go to www.aira.io for extra info.

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Youngsters Touring Alone

If in case you have a baby touring alone (unaccompanied minors) and need to escort them to the gate, please make preparations with the airline to obtain an entry move to the gate.

Ask for Assist

Pleasant Ambassadors and workers are right here to assist, so you probably have questions, ask them.

@AskTSA: Vacationers with questions on safety, or gadgets they will or can’t carry on their journey, can contact a TSA worker for stay help 365 days a 12 months by tweeting questions and feedback to @AskTSA.