Mother’s Day Weekend Brings Record High Of Airline Travelers

This weekend a record number of Americans took to the skies for Mother’s Day. On Friday 1.7 million people were screened at security checkpoints throughout the U.S. and on Thursday, 1.64 million Americans were also checked. Those two days alone were the busiest days for air travel since March of 2020 early on in the pandemic. According to the Transportation Security Administration, in May and April crowds at airports were down 40% compared to the same period in 2019. Airline traffic began picking up near Thanksgiving and Christmas last year and a rise in bookings was observed around mid-February which airlines partially attribute to the nation’s vaccine rollout.