Thanksgiving: United Airlines is expecting one of its busiest post-pandemic travel days

This year, United Airlines expects to have its busiest-ever Thanksgiving, with nearly 6m people flying with the airline during the holiday travel period. During the Thanksgiving period, from November 17 to November 29, United expects to carry more than 5.9m passengers, a 5% increase compared to pre-pandemic 2019 and 13% compared to the same period last year. The airline will operate an average of 3,900 flights per day, equating to about three takeoffs per minute. It has, therefore, added over 550,000 seats to meet the pent-up demand. United Airlines actually expects to serve more customers on the Sunday after Thanksgiving Day, November 26, compared to any other travel day since before the pandemic. Over 517,000 passengers will board United flights on this day, about 60,000 more than on November 27, 2022, the Sunday after last year's Thanksgiving. According to United's forecast, the days immediately after Thanksgiving remain the busiest. However, flights on off-peak days will have more passengers compared to 2019. On the Monday before the holiday, demand increased nearly 10% of 2019 levels, and only about 3% on the Wednesday before.<br/>