This summer’s record-breaking travel season isn’t over yet.
This year’s Labor Day weekend is expected to be the busiest holiday ever for airports, with 17 million passengers scheduled to fly through Wednesday, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
More than 8,000 delays and 450 cancellations occurred on Friday for flights into and out of the U.S., according to flight-tracking site FlightAware. By Saturday afternoon, there were already 1,800 delays and 180 cancellations.
The American Automobile Association reported that domestic travel this weekend was up 9% compared to last year. Trips to Seattle, the most popular Labor Day destination, also topped the list last year, are up nearly 30% from last year. Alaska cruises for this weekend are sold out, according to AAA booking data.
AAA said international travel over Labor Day weekend was down 4% compared to last year, which the company said could be due to an 11% increase in the cost of international travel.
Meanwhile, for road trippers, the average price of gasoline this weekend in the U.S. is lower this year, at about $3.35 per gallon of regular gasoline, down from $3.82 a year ago. AAA said it was preparing to help more than 300,000 drivers stranded by flat tires, dead batteries or lockouts in the coming days.
This busy Labor Day weekend caps off a historic summer for travel, which TSA says began in May with the busiest 10-day period in the agency’s history: On July 7, the TSA screened a record 3 million people in a single day.