US: Soaring numbers of air travellers expected weekend before July 4
The Friday before July 4 may approach a record for the busiest day ever for US airports, the head of the TSA said. Traffic for the day could top 2.6m passengers, making it “potentially one of the busiest in TSA history,” TSA administrator David Pekoske said Wednesday. TSA says 9 of the top 15 days in the past 16 years have occurred since May 2017 and the peak day last year was the Friday before Independence Day, when 2.65m people flew. A4A projects that air travel this summer will rise by 3.7% to an all-time high of 246m passengers. TSA is preparing for the increased volume of passengers by adding 1,600 officers during peak days across the top 50 US airports, notifying fliers of changes in regulations, such as additional screening for powders, and rolling out CT scanners in some airports that provide better screening of luggage. <br/>
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US: Soaring numbers of air travellers expected weekend before July 4
The Friday before July 4 may approach a record for the busiest day ever for US airports, the head of the TSA said. Traffic for the day could top 2.6m passengers, making it “potentially one of the busiest in TSA history,” TSA administrator David Pekoske said Wednesday. TSA says 9 of the top 15 days in the past 16 years have occurred since May 2017 and the peak day last year was the Friday before Independence Day, when 2.65m people flew. A4A projects that air travel this summer will rise by 3.7% to an all-time high of 246m passengers. TSA is preparing for the increased volume of passengers by adding 1,600 officers during peak days across the top 50 US airports, notifying fliers of changes in regulations, such as additional screening for powders, and rolling out CT scanners in some airports that provide better screening of luggage. <br/>
