If 2025 is anything like 2024, watch out for Wednesday and Sunday at TSA checkpoints.
A line of passengers waits at the Frontier Airlines ticketing counter at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (Ben Hendren for the AJC)
If this year’s Thanksgiving air travel is anything like last year’s, the weekend after the holiday will see busy security days at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
According to an analysis of historic Transportation Security Administration data by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year — Dec. 1, 2024 — saw the most passengers pass through security.
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As a business reporter, Emma Hurt leads coverage of the Atlanta airport, Delta Air Lines, UPS, Norfolk Southern and other travel and logistics companies. Prior to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution she worked as an editor and Atlanta reporter for Axios, a politics reporter for WABE News and a business reporter for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Charles Minshew is the data editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
