It's a veritable human stampede at Logan Airport as the Sunday skies are set to brim with the bustle of holiday travelers, a figure toppling the charts at an estimated 2.9 million passengers. In a prelude to this record-breaking exodus, the Transportation Security Administration screened a swelling tide of 68,000 people on the Friday before Thanksgiving alone, expecting these numbers to spill over into a forecast that the prediction was more than 70,000 in the days approaching Turkey Day, NBC Boston reports.
The Sunday after Thanksgiving is girded to become the TSA's busiest day ever—just a crown jewel in an already glittering season that's already seen. "In 2023, we have already seen seven of the top 10 busiest travel days in TSA’s history," TSA Administrator David Pekoske noted in the leaves of Boston 25 News. The agency, which herded through 2.6 million passengers the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and 2.7 million on the holiday’s eve, now gazes down the barrel of a 2.9 million passenger-strong cannon, set to fire off its raucous payload into the open arms of aeronautical history.
They've deployed new checkpoint screening technology, a behemoth amid our high-tech armory, to expedite the maddening crawl through security, according to the same officials who shepherded this pandemonium.
Meanwhile, the old ground is giving way to a new strategy as the Massachusetts Department of Transportation halts all road construction on major arteries until the dawn of Monday. The "T" has amplified its Silver Line service, passengers riding without fare into this orchestrated chaos; this orchestration is a maneuver subsidized by MassPort through the day, "On Sunday we expect there to be major, major delays, the majority of the day starting as early as 10 a.m.," MassDOT Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt preached during the agency's holiday press conference, as reported by NBC Boston.
