The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened 984,354 passengers at airports on October 11, marking the highest number since April 14.
The nearly one-million travelers marks the fifth time in October that TSA agents screened more than 900,000 passengers in a day and is a stark difference from the 87,534 travelers that passed through security on April 14.
While the traveler numbers have improved since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, they are still down from the 2.55 million people screened on the same day in 2019.
The increase in travelers passing through airports across the U.S. comes less than a month after the TSA and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) invited new airports to participate in the Preclearance program for the first time since 2016…
