World News | More Than 3 Million Travellers Screened at US Airports in Single Day; That's a Record

Washington, Dec 2 (AP) Travellers heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday set a record on Sunday, as airport officers screened more than 3 million people.

The Transportation Security Administration said Monday that it handled 3.09 million travellers, breaking the previous record by about 74,000. That mark was set on July 7, also a Sunday after a holiday.

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Hundreds of thousands of travellers were delayed or had their flights cancelled. Airlines cancelled about 120 US flights — not an unusually high number — and more than 6,800 flights were delayed, according to FlightAware. The largest numbers of delays were at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

The TSA had predicted that Thanksgiving week air travel would rise 6% over the same days last year, fitting a pattern of record travel in 2024. (AP)

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