TSA screens report 10.4 million vacationers over Labor Day weekend

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened a report variety of passengers nationwide over the Labor Day weekend, with Friday marking one of many busiest journey days within the company’s historical past.

Approximately 10.4 million vacationers flooded airports from Friday by Monday, marking a 3.3% leap over the identical four-day interval in 2024. 

Friday was the busiest day for the Friday earlier than Labor Day, with TSA officers screening 2,971,217 passengers. It additionally marked the fifteenth busiest single day within the company’s almost 24-year historical past. 

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Eight out of the highest 10 busiest journey days at airports nationwide have been reported since May 23 because the company is on tempo to interrupt an all-time annual passenger quantity report this 12 months. 

The new “family only” lane on the safety checkpoint at John Wayne Airport on Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Santa Ana, CA.  (Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register by way of Getty Images) / Getty Images)

The numbers spotlight how “air travel continues to reach record high trajectories,” in keeping with TSA appearing Deputy Administrator Adam Stahl. However, Stahl stated TSA is “fully prepared to meet the growing demand by maintaining a close partnership with our aviation industry partners.”  

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A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent assists vacationers as they place their baggage onto a scanner belt on the TSA safety checkpoint at Dallas Love Field Airport (DAL) in Dallas, Texas, on Aug. 28, 2025.  (Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images / Getty Images)

Stahl stated the company underwent “a summer of remarkable change.” It enhanced the traveler expertise whereas boosting safety because it seeks to “implement President Trump’s vision for a new Golden Age of American travel,” he continued.   

Recent TSA coverage adjustments made this summer time: 

• TSA ended the “Shoes-Off” coverage, permitting passengers touring by home airports to maintain their sneakers on whereas passing by safety screening at TSA checkpoints.

A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent checks a traveler’s identification on the TSA safety checkpoint at Dallas Love Field Airport (DAL) in Dallas, Texas, on Aug. 28, 2025.  (Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images / Getty Images)

• TSA unveiled the “Serve with Honor, Travel with Ease” program, in partnership with TSA PreCheck, which supplies devoted screening lanes for navy members at choose airports, free TSA PreCheck for many who misplaced a member of the family in navy service and a reduction on TSA PreCheck enrollment for navy spouses.

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• The company in July additionally launched its new “Families on the Fly” initiative, offering devoted household lanes at choose airports to ease a number of the stress for touring households. It additionally discounted TSA PreCheck for relations and devoted TSA PreCheck lanes for service members touring with spouses and youngsters.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem additionally hinted in July that there could also be an easing of guidelines surrounding the dimensions of liquids that vacationers can herald carry-on baggage, although no change has been made so far.

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“The liquids I’m questioning, so that may be the next big announcement, is what size your liquids need to be,” Noem said at an event in Washington, D.C., hosted by “The Hill.”