Paging airline passengers: You left $926,030.44 in cash at TSA checkpoints

Published August 21, 2020 6:44pm ET



Those plastic bins at airport security checkpoints where you deposit your valuables for screening are doubling as bank teller windows for the Transportation Security Administration.

Passengers left behind nearly $1 million at airport security checkpoints during fiscal year 2019, which ended last Oct. 1, according to a newly released report by the TSA.

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