Overview
- Massport and TSA opened the Logan Airport Remote Terminal in Framingham on June 1 as a first-in-the-nation pilot that lets eligible travelers complete check-in, print boarding passes, drop checked bags, and finish TSA screening before traveling to Boston Logan.
- After screening passengers board secure buses operated by The Landline Company that run roughly hourly and carry about 50–55 people to Logan’s secure side so they can walk straight to their gates.
- The service is limited to Delta and JetBlue flyers during daytime hours, runs through June, July and August as a controlled three-month trial, and uses a reservation model with tickets priced at $9 and parking at $7 per day.
- Massport reports strong early demand with several hundred tickets sold per day and more than 2,200 sales in the opening days, and officials will use operational, security and baggage-handling data to decide on expansion to other airlines or sites such as Braintree.
- The pilot aims to ease busy checkpoint congestion and long lines by shifting processing offsite, but wider adoption will depend on seamless baggage integration, airline participation, strategic site placement, and TSA evaluations from related pilots in other cities.