Henry Hartfeld

If you paid for your ticket with a credit card, your bank or credit card issuers should issue you a refund after the airline shuts down.

If you've paid cash or redeemed frequent flyer miles, unfortunately, you're out of luck.

You have no way of getting your cash back or your frequent flyer miles refunded.

Airline analysts say wait times have improved since Trump took executive action to begin paying TSA agents after more than a month.

But the recovery is uneven.

Hundreds of officers resigned during the partial shutdown, and it can take months to train replacements.

Airline analyst Henry Hartfeld says that uncertainty could quickly affect operations.

That can lead to inconsistent staffing levels at airports, making wait times harder to predict.

Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.

Airline analysts say wait times have improved since Trump took executive action to begin paying TSA agents after more than a month.

But the recovery is uneven.

Hundreds of officers resigned during the partial shutdown, and it can take months to train replacements.

Airline analyst Henry Hartfeld says that uncertainty could quickly affect operations.

That can lead to inconsistent staffing levels at airports, making wait times harder to predict.

Windsor Johnston, NPR News, Washington.

This is a day-to-day situation.

If the back pay isn't fully repaid, and if the TSA workers are concerned that they won't be paid for the work they do now, that we're going to start seeing absenteeism increase again.