TSA Estimates Thanksgiving Travel At BWI Will Reach Pre-Pandemic Levels

LINTHICUM, Md. (WJZ) — Transportation Security Administration officials expect a batch of radical volition beryllium flying location this Thanksgiving.

The bureau is preparing for enactment astatine BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport to instrumentality to pre-pandemic levels during the Thanksgiving question play betwixt Friday, Nov. 19 and Sunday, Nov. 28.

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Officials advised travelers to deterioration a disguise successful the airdrome and get 2 hours earlier their formation to spell done information screening.

“Travelers should expect to spot a precise engaged airdrome if they are traveling during the Thanksgiving timeframe,” said Reginald Stephens, TSA’s Acting Federal Security Director for BWI. “What passengers request to cognize is that we are acceptable and prepared for the expected summation successful the fig of individuals readying to alert retired of BWI.”

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Stephens besides advised passengers to probe what items they tin and cannot battalion successful a carry-on bag.

According to the agency, the busiest question days are the time earlier Thanksgiving and the Sunday afterward.

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On the Sunday aft Thanksgiving successful 2019, astir 2.9 cardinal radical passed done TSA information checkpoints crossed the country, the bureau said.

CBS Baltimore Staff