Tighter security measures at the Colorado Springs Airport since Friday’s failed attack haven’t affected passenger routines, Aviation Director Mark Earle said Monday.

All the changes have happened behind the scenes, and the Transportation Security Administration hasn’t issued new rules that would affect how people get through their flights, Earle said.

Incidents similar to the attempt on the Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day typically lead to new rules governing what passengers can take on flights and how they go through security screening procedures, he said.

Passengers appeared to be moving swiftly through screening on Monday. About 30 people were waiting in line at about 5:30 p.m., but they’d all entered the concourse 20 minutes later. They included Stephen Dickard, a Tulsa, Okla., resident who caught a flight home Monday evening. Dickard said he wasn’t concerned about flying after the attempted terror attack.

“On Christmas Day, I was in Oklahoma,” he said.

Roy Murray, a Colorado Springs resident who returned home Monday, said he had no problem getting through security when he departed from Traverse City, Mich. The security wait time in that city was about 30 minutes, he said.

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