This past week was the TSA’s busiest since March of 2020.
The number of passengers at U.S. airports reached the busiest level in over a year this week, according to
from the Transportation Security Administration, making a steep increase from last spring as travel gradually recovers from a severe coronavirus-induced slump.More than 1.4 million people were screened at TSA security checkpoints on both Thursday and Friday, the two highest daily figures in about a year.
The TSA has screened just over 1.1 million people per day on average so far this month, compared to 873,000 in February and 110,000 per day last April, meaning this month is on track to be the busiest since March 2020. But travel is still well below where it was at this point in March 2019, when the TSA was screening more than 2.3 million people per day.8.9 million. That’s how many people passed through TSA checkpoints over the past week. By comparison, the TSA screened about 8.3 million people during the same period in 2020, and the agency recorded just 666,000 screenings during one week in mid-April.