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Videos Taken outside St. Louis Lambert International Airport on Sunday shows travelers waiting in rows that extend to the highway.
“I saw that it was about five hours to release a bag, and unfortunately I checked a bag,” says Jessicah Cross, a first time traveler to St. Louis, to People.
Cross was in town on July 13 for a conference when her sister -in -law, who had a layover at the airport, texted her about the “exaggerated” lines. So she left her conference one and a half hours to beat the crowds.
After Cross took a bus to the airport, she had noticed that the line had died from what she had seen on social media. But it was still long. In a video she published to TiktokPassengers are still waiting in rows that extend through the entrance.
“From the time I was dropped to the time I went to the counter to release my bag, it was about an hour and 10 minutes,” says Cross.
When Cross arrived, she began to realize that many of the passengers came from the same place.
“Much of this was due to the large number of delegates who went home from the seventh days of adventists’ general conference,” shared a spokesman for St. Louis Lambert in a statement with people. “We understand that many of the delegates arrived at the airport early for flights planned later in the day.”
Through comments on her Tiktok, Cross was told that this was the first time the conference welcomed international visitors. Addition to the Röran bused the conference all participants to the airport at the same time, regardless of their flight departures.
“Everyone was just in a state of shock,” Cross explains. “Everyone just tried to laugh off it, because what can you do in that situation?”
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Rhonda Hamm-Niebuegge, the airport director, says it did not help that many of the flyers did not have the TSA occurrence.
“Everyone was here for two weeks so most all had at least two bags to check,” she tells the local outlet Km. “So between not having access through clear or pre -control, having the bags and everyone who came out in the morning for flights during the day, it was really difficult for both the airlines and TSA.”
Despite the hiccups, Cross says that everyone she met was still friendly.
“Everyone in line with me was in a big mood. Everyone at the airport was so incredibly nice,” she tells people. “Everyone was shocking, very nice at the airport yesterday, which is, you know, something you usually don’t meet.”