Airports nationwide, together with Fresno Yosemite Worldwide Airport (FAT), might be busy throughout the Thanksgiving journey interval, which begins Friday, November 17 and concludes on Tuesday, November 28. The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) initiatives the busiest days throughout the 12-day journey interval are the Tuesday and Wednesday previous to Thanksgiving and the Sunday afterward.

Passengers are inspired to reach early and be ready for journey. With flights anticipated to be at or close to capability, fewer choices could also be out there to accommodate rebooking if flights are missed.

Throughout this busy journey season, FAT’s purpose is to make the journey expertise a handy and completely happy one. For simple and carefree journey, FAT affords the following tips to assist with the vacation journey journey:

  Airways

• Passengers are strongly inspired to arrive early on the airport as much as two hours previous to home flight departures and as much as three hours previous to worldwide flights.
• Please be ready to be affected person and versatile. Whereas the present climate forecast doesn’t present impacts throughout the vacation journey interval, issues can change very quickly and have an effect on journey plans.
• Examine along with your airline on flight standing earlier than leaving for the airport. Handy flights standing hyperlinks can be found on most airline web sites and cellular apps, or passengers might phone their airline for flight standing info.

Pack Sensible

• Pack sensible; begin with empty luggage. By packing for journey with empty luggage, passengers are much less prone to convey prohibited objects by a TSA checkpoint. Examine for prohibited objects through the use of the “What Can I Carry?” web page at TSA.gov .

• Transporting firearms and ammunition: Should you plan to journey with a firearm, you will need to correctly pack the firearm in a hard-sided, locked case in your checked bag and declare it with the airline on the ticket counter when checking in. Passengers are prohibited from packing firearms in carry-on baggage and bringing them to the airport safety checkpoint and onboard plane. Bringing a firearm to a TSA checkpoint is pricey and time-consuming and may trigger delays. Please evaluate info on transporting firearms at https://www.tsa.gov/journey/transporting-firearms-and-ammunition .

TSA Safety Screening

• Assessment TSA’s 3-1-1 Liquids Rule for carry-on luggage. Passengers might convey a quart-sized bag of liquids, aerosols, gels, lotions, and pastes of their carry-on bag and thru the checkpoint. These are restricted to travel-sized containers which might be 3.4 ounces or much less per merchandise. Pack objects which might be in containers bigger than 3.4 ounces in checked baggage.
• Touring with Meals Tip: Should you can spill it, spray it, unfold it, pump it, or pour it, the TSA considers this merchandise a liquid. And if it’s bigger than 3.4 ounces, then it ought to go in a checked bag. See extra meals for thought at TSA Thanksgiving journey suggestions.

Parking

• Parking is in excessive demand throughout the peak vacation intervals. Since heaps can replenish rapidly, please preserve an alternate lot in thoughts in case your first selection is now not out there upon arrival. Vacationers with parking questions can contact FAT’s parking operator SP+ at 559.252.0052. For parking choices and a printable map, please go to flyfresno.com/parking/ .

Cell Cellphone Ready and Floor Transportation

• A Free Cell Cellphone Ready Space is conveniently situated close to the terminal to accommodate family and friends who’re selecting up arriving passengers. Search for the blue indicators to the lot entrance. Drivers should stick with their autos.
• Rideshare drop-off and pick-up space, Fresno Space Categorical (FAX), and V-Line are in entrance of terminal Departures curb on the heart median and marked with blue signage. For a map of floor transportation areas, please go to  flyfresno.com/parking/ .
• Taxi service is out there throughout from the Baggage Declare doorways on the heart median.

Vacation Leisure at FAT

• The Vacation Music Program returns on Tuesday, November 21 for the seventh straight 12 months with reside musical performances by a proficient lineup of native pianists and Mariachi Tenochtitlan. As a part of the Airport’s Arts & Tradition Program, these musicians will entertain vacationers and create a festive vacation vibe all through the season.
• A number of adorned and illuminated timber, together with a Patriotic Tree, set the vacation tone within the terminal and big vacation themed selfie stations within the central foyer space welcomes family and friends to seize vacation pictures.

Well being and Security

Thanksgiving Journey Updates

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Fresno Yosemite Worldwide Airport – Fresno Yosemite Worldwide Airport (FAT) is likely one of the largest drivers in financial exercise within the Central San Joaquin Valley. Home and worldwide carriers serving FAT supply Valley vacationers every day nonstop flights to Chicago (December 21, 2023 – January 8, 2024), Dallas Fort Value, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake Metropolis, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Guadalajara, León, and Morelia in Mexico and shortly Atlanta (June 2024) and Dallas Love Discipline (June 2024).

Fresno Yosemite Worldwide Airport and Fresno Chandler Government Airport are municipally owned entities working as a self-supporting enterprise.

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