Americans just endured a nightmare week of travel. It's not going to get better anytime soon.

QUEENS, N.Y. - At John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, travellers queued at TSA checkpoints, anxious to get to their gates before their flights took off.  At terminal 4, which serves mostly Delta and some international carriers, the lines for TSA Pre-check, digital ID, and Clear - the private screening company - were less than 5 minutes; however general TSA lines appeared to be around 30 minutes. "We left 4 hours earlier than we originally planned," said Mike Mayer, an aviation and defense exec based in New York, said after he got through security in Terminal 4.  But right next door at Terminal 5 which serves budget airline JetBlue, wait times for general boarding appeared to last for hours.