Vacationers heading dwelling after the Thanksgiving vacation set a document on Sunday, as airport officers screened greater than 3 million individuals.
The Transportation Safety Administration mentioned Monday that it dealt with 3.09 million vacationers on Sunday, breaking the earlier document by about 74,000. That mark was set on July 7, additionally a Sunday after a vacation.
A whole bunch of 1000’s of vacationers had been delayed or had their flights canceled. Airways canceled about 120 U.S. flights — not an unusually excessive quantity — and greater than 6,800 flights had been delayed, in accordance with FlightAware. The biggest numbers of delays had been at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport and Chicago’s O’Hare Worldwide 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 quickly stopped Monday due to injury to overhead electrical wires.
And a few vacationers making an attempt to return dwelling confronted delays on the roads.
Site visitors at Dallas-Fort Value Worldwide 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 individuals posted on X that they missed their flights due to the gridlock.
A DFW Airport spokesperson attributed the gridlock to “the high volume of holiday traffic in a compressed time frame.” 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 document journey in 2024.