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Tuesdays run 519,000 lighter than Thursdays across 2026. This week’s counts, the 3.13 million record, and the two November dates most likely to beat…
By Anjali Shrestha · Sep 20, 2026
Tuesday is the quietest day to pass through a US airport checkpoint, and Saturday is the second quietest. We took TSA's own published daily throughput — every day of 2026 so far, 260 of them, 642,118,607 people — and averaged it by day of the week. Tuesdays…
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Three days are effectively tied at the top, and three are well below them. Each weekday below is the mean of 37 or 38 actual days in 2026. Average checkpoint volume by weekday, 2026
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Because the American flying week is shaped by work, not by weekends. Monday, Thursday and Friday carry the business traffic out and back; Sunday carries everyone home. Saturday sits in the gap, which is why a day most people avoid on the assumption it will be…
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2026 has not yet had a three-million-passenger day. The peak so far was Thursday 18 June, at 2,988,204 — eleven thousand short. Thirteen days have passed 2.9 million. The daily average across the year is 2,469,687. The seasonal swing is bigger than the…
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At Thanksgiving , the weekday pattern inverts and Sunday becomes the worst day of the year. TSA expected to screen more than 17.8 million people over the 2025 Thanksgiving period, with over 3 million on the Sunday after — which it called one of the busiest…
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Thursday, averaging 2,674,105 people through TSA checkpoints in 2026, with Friday and Sunday effectively tied alongside it.
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Tuesday, at 2,155,316 on average — about 519,000 fewer travellers than a Thursday. Saturday is next at 2,244,134.
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2,469,687 on average across 2026 so far. The busiest single day was 2,988,204 on 18 June; no day this year has passed three million.
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No. It is the second-quietest day of the week at the checkpoint, quieter than Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
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Update, 23 September 2026: the ten most recent daily counts, to Monday 21 September, follow the same shape the full-year averages predict, only higher. Sundays and Thursdays crowd the checkpoints, Tuesdays and Saturdays empty them, and the gap between the…
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The record book explains it. The TSA's busiest day ever was Sunday 30 November 2025 , when 3,133,924 people went through security, and that beat a mark of about 3.09 million set only five months earlier, on Sunday 22 June. Before the Fourth of July this year…
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If the last two years repeat, the calendar looks like this. Thanksgiving is Thursday 26 November. The Wednesday before it and, above all, the Sunday after it, 29 November , are the days most likely to set a new record, because that is exactly what 30 November…
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