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Bloomberg
Buckle up. The Friday before July 4 may approach a record for the busiest day ever for US airports, the head of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said.
Traffic for the day could top 2.6 million passengers, making it “potentially one of the busiest in TSA history,†TSA administrator David Pekoske said. TSA says nine of the top 15 days in the past 16 years have occurred since May 2017 and the peak day last year was on the Friday before Independence Day, when 2.65 million people flew.
Airlines for America, a travel industry association, projects that air travel this summer will rise by 3.7 percent to an all-time high of 246 million 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, and rolling out CT scanners in some airports that provide better screening of luggage.