Travelers heading house after the Thanksgiving vacation set a file on Sunday, as airport officers screened greater than 3 million folks.
The Transportation Security Administration mentioned Monday that it dealt with 3.09 million vacationers on Sunday, breaking the earlier file by about 74,000. That mark was set on July 7, additionally a Sunday after a vacation.
Hundreds of 1000’s of vacationers had been delayed or had their flights canceled. Airlines canceled about 120 U.S. flights — not an unusually excessive quantity — and greater than 6,800 flights had been delayed, based on FlightAware. The largest numbers of delays had been at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
Monday was additionally anticipated to be a busy day. By noon, there have been about 80 canceled flights and greater than 2,000 delays.
Amtrak rail service between Philadelphia and New York was briefly stopped Monday due to injury to overhead electrical wires.
And some vacationers attempting to return house confronted delays on the roads.
Traffic at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport got here to a standstill Sunday night, with the airport utilizing social media to inform motorists to keep away from one of many two predominant entrance roads. Some folks posted on X that they missed their flights due to the gridlock.
A DFW Airport spokesperson attributed the gridlock to “the excessive quantity of vacation visitors in a compressed timeframe.” She mentioned the airport deployed additional cops to assist get visitors transferring.
The TSA had predicted that Thanksgiving week air journey would rise 6% over the identical days final 12 months, becoming a sample of file journey in 2024.
