Over seven million Americans passed through TSA checkpoints over the long weekend, an over 400% increase from last year.
A sign of the country’s steps toward normalcy, air travel reached a new pandemic record over the Memorial Day weekend, according tofrom the Transportation Security Administration , with the surge of Americans taking to the skies for the holiday closing in on pre-coronavirus levels.... [+]A total of 7.1 million people passed through airport security checkpoints between Friday and Monday, TSA data shows.
Friday became the busiest day for air travel since the start of the pandemic with 1.96 million passing through security checkpoints—a record quickly followed by Monday’s 1.9 million. Overall, air travel was up nearly 450% from the same period last year, when just 1.3 million passed through TSA checkpoints as Covid-19 surged across the country.
This year’s holiday travel closed in on pre-pandemic levels, with airports clocking nearly 75% of 2019’s security checkpoint traffic of 9.7 million. 37 million. That’s how many Americans were projected to travel 50 miles or more over the holiday weekend, an increase of 60% from the same time last year, according to a AAA
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