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AUSTIN (KXAN) – More than 280,000 passengers departed from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport during the Thanksgiving season this year, meaning travel numbers have returned to pre-pandemic levels.
According to airport officials, 284,198 passengers underwent a TSA screening from the Friday before Thanksgiving to the Sunday after.
That’s nearly three times the 2020 total when Texas saw the second surge in the COVID-19 pandemic. Only 97,287 passengers flew from AUS this year.
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This year’s total is also higher than in 2019 before the pandemic. This year, a total of 247,694 passengers flew.
The Sunday after Thanksgiving is usually the busiest travel day of the Thanksgiving season in AUS. This year 30,048 passengers flew that day. Unusually, the Sunday before Thanksgiving was busier with 32,175 passengers, making it the second busiest day ever at the airport.
Busiest day ever was set last month. More than 35,000 passengers flew out of AUS on October 25th, the Monday after the F1 weekend in Austin.
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