The number of passengers passing through airport security checkpoints in the United States over a holiday weekend has topped the levels seen before the pandemic for the first time since COVID-19 caused a stop to air travel.
8.7 million passengers went through airport security checkpoints over the course of the final four days of the summer travel season, surpassing the number of people who traveled over the Labor Day holiday weekend in 2019.
According to what the Transportation Security Administration said on Tuesday, this is a first for a holiday weekend.
The Transportation Security Administration processed 2.48 million passengers on Friday, which was their biggest day ever.
After a summer that got off to a rocky start with a lot of problems, tourists reported having a lot less trouble than usual.
According to the monitoring website FlightAware, airlines were forced to cancel around 640 domestic flights in the United States between Friday and Monday, which represents 0.6% of the total. This is a cancellation rate that is less than one-third of what it was between June 1 and Labor Day. In addition, there were less delays.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said that screeners discovered 67 firearms in passenger luggage between Friday and Monday, which is extremely close to the daily average of 17.3 firearms discovered this year. The organization predicted that if the current trend continues, the number of firearms found at checkpoints would surpass the record of 5,972 that was set in 2018.
