AUSTIN (KXAN) — Additional than 280,000 passengers flew out of Austin-Bergstrom Intercontinental Airport above the Thanksgiving period this calendar year, indicating journey quantities are back to pre-pandemic ranges.

In accordance to airport officials, 284,198 travellers went by way of TSA screening from the Friday before Thanksgiving to the Sunday after.

That’s nearly triple the complete from 2020, when Texas was nicely into the second surge of the COVID-19 pandemic. Only 97,287 passengers flew out of AUS that yr.

This year’s whole is also better than 2019, before the pandemic. A complete of 247,694 passengers flew that year.

The Sunday soon after Thanksgiving is typically the busiest journey day of the Thanksgiving time at AUS. This calendar year, 30,048 travellers flew on that date. Unusually, the Sunday right before Thanksgiving was busier, with 32,175 passengers, creating it the next-busiest day ever at the airport.

The busiest-working day ever was set last month. A lot more than 35,000 travellers flew out of AUS on Oct. 25, the Monday just after F1 weekend in Austin.