Busiest Day in TSA History: December 1, 2024

As predicted, nearly 3.09 million people were screened by TSA at airports nationwide to close out the Thanksgiving holiday. This figure makes it the busiest day ever at U.S. airports and only the second time that the 3 million mark was reached in one day.

Over Thanksgiving 2024 between November 26 and December 2, that figure will be around 18.3 million people, according to the agency.

Did you know? Cool tool: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) publishes checkpoint travel numbers daily, updating them by 9 a.m. Monday through Friday. Here’s an example. Plus, there’s archived data to 2019. It’s free — here’s the link.

Related: Thanksgiving Holiday Travel Period Expected to Break Records