Traveling on Memorial Day? You could be making history
CNN
If you’ve flown this weekend or are hopping on a flight today, it’s likely you’re making history.
If you’ve flown this weekend or are hopping on a flight today, it’s likely you’re making history. Passenger traffic at US airports is on pace to make this Memorial Day weekend the busiest on record, according to Transportation Security Administration screening data. Following record-setting traveler data for Friday (2.951 million, No. 1 screening day in TSA history) and Thursday (2.897 million, No. 3 ever), more than 2.4 million people passed through TSA checkpoints on each day this weekend. What’s amounting to be a blockbuster Memorial Day weekend could be a precursor to a chart-busting summer of travel. Five of the top 10 busiest travel days in the TSA’s 22-year history have occurred in the past two weeks alone. “During the four-day Memorial Day weekend in 2019, approximately 9.5 million passengers were screened; In 2023, that number rose just above 9.8 million,” Regina Boateng, a TSA spokesperson, told CNN via email. “This year, we expect the four-day figure to rise well above 10 million.”