More than 2.1 million people screened at U.S. airport checkpoints Sunday, the most since start of COVID pandemic: TSA
The number of daily air travelers in the U.S. soared to a new record high since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
A lofty 2,100,761 travelers were screened at U.S. airport checkpoints on Sunday, the Transportation Security Administration announced. It was the first time since March 2020 that so many people have been screened in one day.
In a tweet Monday, TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein said that Sunday had the” highest checkpoint volume since the start of the pandemic.”
“Continue to #MaskUp,” Farbstein wrote.
Sunday was the fifth day in June that more than 2 million people were screened at U.S. checkpoints, according to TSA data. Before this month there hadn’t been a single day with at least 2 million air travelers since March 2020.
Air travel plummeted at the beginning of the pandemic, with the daily number of people screened at TSA checkpoints frequently dipping below 100,000 travelers in April 2020, and typically remaining below 1 million people through the end of the year. The low mark came April 13, 2020, when just 87,534 passed through checkpoints on April 13, 2020.
Before the pandemic, the TSA averaged between 2 million and 2.5 million travelers per day.