(3 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
West Palm Beach, Florida – 3 July 2024
1. Various of travelers picking up luggage
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Peggy Grundstrom, Hampden, Massachusetts resident:
“It was busier than I have personally seen in the past. Yes, I had to wait for the security a little bit longer than normal.”
3. People gathered at baggage claim
4. Various of people with luggage
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Lindsay, Baltimore resident:
“Flight was early enough, I thought it wouldn’t be that busy, but it turned out to be quite busy, I guess, because it’s the holidays, the day before 4th of July."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Charlotte, North Carolina – 3 July 2024
6. Travelers at TSA checkpoint
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lisa Thompson Charlotte, North Carolina resident:
"We’re probably giving ourself an extra almost hour just because of how busy we’ve heard the airport’s going to be with so many traveling this holiday weekend."
8. Travelers at TSA checkpoint
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanya Riley, Winston-Salem, North Carolina resident:
"We made, additional plans, and we wanted to come a day before the holiday, made sure that we had the right insurances in place and, some extra time, just in case we have to extend our stay."
10. Travelers at TSA checkpoint
STORYLINE:
Nicole Lindsay thought she could beat the holiday-week travel rush by booking an early-morning flight. It didn’t work out that way.
Lindsay said the flight was full, but her family arrived safely to spend a few days in Port Saint Lucie, so she was not complaining.
Airlines hope the outcome is just as good for millions of other passengers scheduled to take holiday flights over the next few days.
AAA forecasts that 70.9 million people will travel at least 50 miles (80 kilometers) from home over a nine-day stretch that began June 27, a 5% increase over the comparable period around the Fourth of July last year.
Most of those people will drive, and the motor club says traffic will be the worst between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. most days.
Federal officials expect air-travel records to fall as Americans turn the timing of July Fourth on a Thursday into a four-day — or longer — holiday weekend.
The Transportation Security Administration predicts that its officers will screen more than 3 million travelers at U.S. airports on Sunday. That would top the June 23 mark of more than 2.99 million.
American Airlines said Sunday is expected to be its busiest day of the entire summer; it plans more than 6,500 flights.
TSA was created after the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and replaced a collection of private security companies that were hired by airlines.
Eight of the 10 busiest days in TSA’s history have come this year, as the number of travelers tops pre-pandemic levels.
The head of the agency, David Pekoske, said Wednesday that TSA has enough screeners to handle the expected crowds this weekend and through the summer.
Peggy Grundstrom, a frequent traveler from Massachusetts who flew to Florida to visit her daughter and granddaughter, said the line for security in Hartford, Connecticut, was unusually long.
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