The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it recorded 2.56 million airline passengers yesterday Sunday, the highest number since December 2019 and the busiest day since the outbreak of pandemic Covid-19.
The number, however, was down from the 2.88 million recorded on the same day in 2019 at the end of a period of increased travel in the US due to the Thanksgiving holiday season.
US airlines reported very few cancellations during the holiday travel season, including 177 yesterday Sunday and 36 today. U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Butitz said Saturday on Twitter that Friday went well in terms of airline flight timeliness performance, with cancellation and delay rates at 0.4% and 0.3%, respectively.
US airlines were scheduled to operate 13% fewer domestic flights during the eight-day Thanksgiving holiday travel period compared to 2019, according to data from Cirium. However, the flights were often on larger planes.
Airlines and Butitz clashed for months over problems that emerged over the summer that led to tens of thousands of flight disruptions and prompted the department to push airlines to do more to boost passenger service.
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