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Air travel volume boomed over Memorial Day Weekend to the highest numbers since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
In total, 7.1 million people passed through airport security during the holiday weekend.
Air travel this past weekend was up nearly 450 percent from the 2020 numbers for Memorial Day Weekend, which saw a total of 1.3 million people and an average of 52,947 people travel through the airport that weekend, according to TSA data.
However, 2021’s travel numbers for the holiday weekend were still down 22 percent from Memorial Day Weekend in 2019, per TSA.
Travelers head to the airport wearing masks.Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty
The expected uptick comes as vaccination rollout continues across the U.S. and mask mandates and restrictions have been either fully dropped or relaxed in all 50 states. COVID-19 cases and deaths have also reached record lows in the country.
As of Tuesday, 62.6 percent of U.S. adults have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 51.5 percent of adults have been fully vaccinated against the virus, according todata from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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