Six years of TSA counts, not forecasts. The peak is not the Wednesday. Photo: Michael Ball, CC0.
TSA screened 1,559,165 people on Thanksgiving 2025, the quietest day of that whole year. Photo: M.O. Stevens, CC BY.
3,134,613 screened on 30 November 2025. Busiest day of the year, six years running. Photo: Mattpopovich, CC0.
In six years of records it has never been the busiest day even of its own week. Photo: Dbenbenn, CC BY-SA.
Thanksgiving 2026 is 26 November. Keep off Sunday 29 November. Photo: HaJunkiyada, CC BY-SA.