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Americans established an unprecedented high for inland flight journeys in 2025 despite changing travel patterns, a recent study revealed.
AAA Northeast reviewed multiple years’ worth of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screening information and discovered that more than 904 million individuals passed through a TSA checkpoint last year, marking a rise of 2.57 million passengers relative to 2024.
This total represents a new yearly high for domestic air travel, however, the annual rise was below 1% growth – significantly less rapid than in previous periods.
In contrast, the count of flyers passing through TSA checkpoints increased by 5.3% in 2024 from 2023, which itself saw a 13% expansion from 2022.
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AAA Northeast found that 2025 set a record for domestic air travel, though the rate of growth slowed. (Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A reduced number of passengers traveled on Mondays and Tuesdays in 2025, with traveler volume decreasing by 0.39% and 3%, while an increased number of passengers boarded planes on Thursdays and Sundays, showing an expansion of 1.89% and 1.87%, respectively.
AAA’s study indicated that this data might signify “a decline in business travel at the start of the workweek and sustained vigor in recreational journeys, which typically happens closer to weekends.”
The information further revealed that 2025 recorded reduced traveler numbers in the initial half of the year when compared to 2024, with four of the first six months of the past year exhibiting a decrease in expansion relative to 2024.
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The number of extremely busy travel days increased in 2025 despite the modest year-over-year increase in overall travel. (Reuters/Maja Smiejkowska)
January 2025 witnessed an increase in traveler numbers by 1.75%, though February faced a 2.97% decrease. A 0.17% drop in March and a 0.23% rise in April were succeeded by reductions of 1.48% in May and 0.45% in June.
Traveler numbers recovered near the Fourth of July holiday, with July registering 1.16% growth, and this impetus continued through October when numbers had risen 3.63% year-over-year.
The holiday journey season was marginally less brisk in 2025 than in 2024, with numbers falling by 0.15% in November and 0.08% in December. AAA posited that the decrease might have resulted from the impact of the government shutdown, however, it noted that travel during the period of the shutdown itself was 2.2% greater than the preceding year, following a 6.2% drop in the shutdown’s final week.
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The holiday travel season was slightly slower in 2025 than in 2024, AAA Northeast reported. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
AAA further observed that there was a rise in the quantity of peak activity days with exceeding 3 million passengers clearing TSA checkpoints.
There were eight such instances in 2025, as May 23, June 22, July 6, July 13, July 20, July 27, Oct. 10 and Nov. 30 all recorded traveler numbers exceeding 3 million. Conversely, there were just two similar occasions in 2024: July 7 and Dec. 1.
TSA also established new peaks for traveler numbers on two occasions in 2025: June 22 saw 3.09 million passengers screened, while Nov. 30 surpassed this new benchmark, recording 3.13 million passengers.
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