Busy holiday travel week wraps up at Denver International Airport

Denver International Airport (DIA) expects approximately 276,000 passengers to travel through TSA checkpoints at the airport on November 26. (KDVR)

DENVER (KDVR) – The rush of the Thanksgiving holiday is over, but the journey of the holiday season has just begun.

Security lines were pretty empty most of Sunday, which is still expected to be the busiest travel day outside of the Thanksgiving holiday stretch.


Denver International Airport (DIA) expects approximately 276,000 passengers to travel through TSA checkpoints at the airport on November 26.

Thousands are making the trip back home and some told FOX31 they’re back on a plane in about three weeks.

“We’ll be back for Christmas,” Devon Romero, who travels home to Baltimore, told FOX31. “Tickets are bought, plans are set, so we’ll be back, too.”

Romero said they booked their tickets early, but they were still expensive.

“Oh my gosh, they were pretty absurd,” Romero said. “It’s just me and I’m traveling with my partner, so the total for the two of us to get there and back was over $1,000 which is pretty wild, but you do what you have to do to see the family.”

Here is the total number of passengers expected to pass through TSA checkpoints at Denver International Airport:

  • Wednesday, November 22: 270,000
  • Thursday, November 23: 162,000
  • Friday, November 24: 253,000
  • Saturday, November 25: 222,000
  • Sunday, November 26: 276,000

A DIA spokesman said an exact count would be released later this week.

Clint Henderson, a travel expert with “The Points Guy,” advises those still looking to book for Christmas or the New Year to compare dollars to points.

“If you can fly on vacation sometimes, you’ll save money and beat the crowds, too,” Henderson said. “If it’s this late in the season, you want to book Christmas sooner rather than later. Set Google flight alerts because sometimes you’ll find a deal, so if you see a deal jump.

For the entire Thanksgiving holiday travel period, DIA said more than 785,000 passengers are scheduled to travel through TSA checkpoints at DIA from Nov. 17 to Nov. 27, a 13% increase from this time last year.

“Happy holidays to everyone traveling,” Romero said. “It’s a chaotic time, but we’re all doing what we can to see the people we love.”

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