Thanksgiving air travel expected to break pandemic record, TSA says
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Traveling for Thanksgiving this year is going to look way more like 2019 than our first pandemic holiday season: crowded.
(CNN) — Traveling for Thanksgiving this year is going to look way more like 2019 than our first pandemic holiday season: crowded.
The number of people flying for Thanksgiving will "without a doubt" break pandemic-era air travel records, TSA Administrator David Pekoske told CNN's Pete Muntean in an exclusive interview.
"The pandemic record right now stands at about 2.2 million people [on a single day] and I would expect that we will definitely exceed that," Pekoske said.
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