At least 37 million people are expected to hit the roads this weekend.
screened 1.96 million people through checkpoints at U.S. airports on Friday, the highest total since the coronavirus pandemic began, with domestic travel surging in the wake of increasing vaccinations and relaxed safety guidelines, but the number of Americans traveling over the Memorial Day weekend is still expected to fall well below the levels of 2019.airline passenger at O'Hare International Airport on October 19, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.
TSA expects this weekend will be the busiest Memorial Day period for air travel in the U.S. since 2019, while more thanAmericans are expected to hit the roads and highways this weekend to travel at least 50 miles from home, according to the American Automobile Association, a 61% increase from last year, but 6 million below figures from 2019.
AAA expects only 237,000 Americans to travel by bus and train this Memorial Day weekend, the second-lowest volume on record, but higher than the 185,000 who traveled in 2020, and 88% below 2019 levels.. That’s how many people were screened by TSA officers at U.S. airports on April 13, 2020, a pandemic era low.