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Labor Day weekend air travel hits nearly 6-month high, but holiday caps dismal summer season

• https://www.cnbc.com, Leslie Josephs

The number of people screened by the Transportation Security Administration reached 968,673 on Friday, the highest since March 16, agency data released on Monday showed. During the Friday-through-Monday holiday weekend, close to 3.3 million passengers passed through TSA checkpoints, down nearly 60% from the holiday weekend in 2019. That, however, is an improvement from the depths of the coronavirus crisis in April when passenger volume was off by more than 95%.

From Memorial Day through Labor Day weekend, which comprises what is generally the busiest and most lucrative time of year for airlines, the TSA screened 65 million people, down nearly 76% from the 269 million it screened on the same dates last year.


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