Christmas is strictly 12 days away, and meaning vacation journey is about to ramp up. 

AAA is predicting record-setting air journey over the Christmas and New Yr’s vacation season.

The current Thanksgiving vacation season was one of many busiest on report at airports. In keeping with information from TSA, greater than 2.9 million individuals handed by way of safety checkpoints on Sunday, Nov. 26, a single day report.

The tip of the 12 months vacation journey season begins this Friday and runs by way of Tuesday, Jan. 2.

Officers with TSA say they’re anticipating airports throughout the nation to be packed for the following few weeks.

“We’re taking a look at virtually 3 million individuals every day. That is a report for TSA, that is a report for the airways, and we positively count on that there shall be delays,” Spokesperson for TSA Texas Patricia Mancha mentioned.

TSA says they count on the busiest days at airports to be Dec. 21-Dec. 22 and Dec. 28-Dec. 29.

They suggest attending to the airport not less than two hours earlier than a home flight and three hours earlier than flying internationally.