With Memorial Day weekend travel underway, U.S. airports recorded the highest number of passengers on Thursday since before the COVID-19 pandemic began.
A person walks by the ticketing lobby at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport on May 25, 2023, in Charlotte, N.C., as the summer travel season begins.
The Transportation Security Administration said it screened 2,658,057 people at checkpoints across the country on Thursday, the highest daily number since 2019.Passengers arrive at LaGuardia Airport, as the Memorial holiday weekend signals the unofficial start of the summer travel season, May 25, 2023, in New York.
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