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More Than 3 Million Travelers Screened at US Airports in a Single Day. That's a Record
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By Associated Press
Published 9 months ago on
December 2, 2024

Travelers line up to check in their bags into San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

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Travelers heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday set a record on Sunday, as airport officers screened more than 3 million people.

The Transportation Security Administration said Monday that it handled 3.09 million travelers, breaking the previous record by about 74,000. That mark was set on July 7, also a Sunday after a holiday.

Hundreds of thousands of travelers were delayed or had their flights canceled. Airlines canceled about 120 U.S. flights — not an unusually high number — and more than 6,800 flights were delayed, according to FlightAware. The largest numbers of delays were at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

The TSA had predicted that Thanksgiving week air travel would rise 6% over the same days last year, fitting a pattern of record travel in 2024.

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