Holiday Travel

Traveling for Thanksgiving during pandemic.

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Our coverage moves to the huntsville international airport now - where there are nearly 2-dozen flights set to depart to busy hubs across the southeast and east coast this morning.

The t-s-a reported more than 3-million air travelers over the weekend!

According to the t-s-a - airports are seeing their biggest crowds since march right now.

Waay 31's sierra phillips joins us live from the huntsville international now - with what they're do to handle the holiday travel rush!

Take a look behind me... i've got flight aware pulled up right here on my phone-- you can see there's more than x flights airborne right now!

In the next hour - 5 flights are set to take off from huntsville international.

All of them are headed to major connecting airports.

A spokeswoman at huntsville international says right now they are seeing more people than they have been since the pandemic started.

But she added that the thanksgiving rush is not as big as it's been in previous years.

If you are flying this year - you'll notice some changes in the airport.

They're cleaning surfaces more often - offering more contactless flight check-ins - and have installed social distancing markers.

The biggest crowds are ahead of us -- sunday is expected to be the most crowded day at airports across the country.

Reporting live in huntsville sierra phillips waay31 news.