Travel this Thanksgiving will be dreadful, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) predicts.
More people will travel, and the holiday period will last longer, experts say. Between Nov. 16 and Nov. 26, the federal agency predicts more than 25 million travelers will be screened at airport checkpoints nationwide.
“People are trying to get a jump-start, head start on the crowds, but actually it’s just as busy the Friday before Thanksgiving and the Monday before Thanksgiving,” CBS New York quoted TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein as saying. “It starts to ramp up on Tuesday. Wednesday is huge, of course, the day before Thanksgiving. And Sunday, right after Thanksgiving, is probably one of the busiest days.
“More people, indeed, are traveling, so here at LaGuardia Airport we are going to see just tens of thousands more passengers coming through the checkpoint,” Farbstein added.