These common behaviors may be red flags for the TSA and the reason why youre delayed

Don’t make these mistakes if you want your experience with airport security to go smoothly.While these might seem like normal, common behaviors by flight passengers, if you commit these actions, transportation security officers (TSOs) may be on high alert and slow down your trip.Jeff Price, an airport security coordinator-trainer and a professor of aviation management at the Metropolitan State University of Denver in Colorado, has an extensive background in airport management and 33 years of aviation security.He spoke with Fox News Digital about certain behaviors that flight passengers should be wary of when going through TSA.“There’s a variety of things that people look for or the TSA personnel will look for — and many of them are the same things that we train airport personnel,” Price told Fox News Digital.The owner of Leading Edge Strategies, an airport management training company, Price shared a variety of everyday behaviors that will raise flags for TSOs.Price noted that it typically is not just one type of behavior that may alert TSOs. Rather, he said, “you look for clusters of those activities.It’s typically never just one thing.”He added, “There are really three things that you look for when you’re doing suspicious awareness training or suspicious awareness activities.”“You establish the baseline.”Price went on, “You have to look at what’s normal.

That’s the baseline … So then you’re looking for deviations from our baseline.”Price said one of the more common behaviors that might raise eyebrows among security is whether people are dressed appropriately for the weather at their departure or arrival point.It can be suspicious if travelers are dressed for weather that does not align with either location — leading to a potential red flag from TSA.Another “common” behavior that could flag security personnel is when people are seen yawning excessively.“Exaggerated yawning, lots of yawning — that might attract at...