A report variety of passengers traveled via U.S. airports over Thanksgiving weekend, the Transportation Safety Administration mentioned Monday.

The TSA mentioned it screened simply over 2.9 million passengers on Sunday, surpassing the earlier report of two.88 million set on June 30. That was 10% greater than the Sunday after Thanksgiving final yr.

Journey was comparatively clean regardless of the crowds. On Sunday, simply 55 flights inside, into or out of the U.S. have been cancelled, in line with FlightAware, a monitoring service. Practically 8,000 flights have been delayed, together with a number of hundred that have been impacted by snow in Denver and Chicago.

Airways have been desirous to keep away from the meltdowns that marred journey final December, when extreme winter storms knocked out hundreds of flights and left thousands and thousands of passengers stranded.

Southwest, which canceled practically 17,000 flights final yr, mentioned it bought extra deicing vans and up to date its crew-scheduling know-how. The airline was beneath specific scrutiny; the federal government just lately threatened to wonderful Southwest for failing to supply sufficient assist to passengers who have been stranded final yr.

The federal government additionally stepped up operations, hiring extra air site visitors controllers and opening new air routes alongside the East Coast forward of the vacation journey season, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg mentioned final week.

Brett Snyder, president of the airline trade weblog Cranky Flier, mentioned Thanksgiving was a “remarkably good weekend for the nation’s airways.”

Between Tuesday and Sunday, no airways canceled greater than 1% of their flights, he mentioned.

Snyder mentioned airways have discovered that they should enhance workers forward of the vacations. However delicate climate in many of the nation additionally helped, he mentioned.