Airline Travel at Highest it's Been Since Start of COVID Pandemic; 1.5 million People Screen Through TSA
More people traveled on Sunday than any day in the past year.
TSA screened 1,543,115 people Sunday, March 21, according to TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein.
“The last time checkpoint throughput topped 1.5 million was March 15, 2020—just more than a year ago,” Farbstein tweeted.
This was also the eleventh consecutive day that the number of people traveling exceeding 1 million, she said.
The number has been slowly creeping towards the 1.5 million mark over the past couple of days.
On March 18 and March 19, TSA screened 1.4 million people each day. On Saturday, the number dipped slightly to 1.3 million before hitting 1.5 million people.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still recommending against travel, including for those who are vaccinated.
“You should still delay domestic and international travel,” the CDC guidance released on March 9 states.
Massachusetts, however, has eased its COVID travel restrictions, replacing the order with a travel advisory.
The travel advisory encourages residents entering or returning to Massachusetts to quarantine for 10 days if they have been out of the state for 24 hours or more, MassLive previously reported. But it does not require it.
Although travel did increase around Thanksgiving and Christmas, the number were not as extreme as they are now.
The travel increase is also amid spring break for many.
Miami Beach, a destination for many spring breakers, declared a state of emergency. The city is struggling to control the crowds.
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