the tsa s projection that a total of 20 million people will take to the skies for thanksgiving. there was a lot of concern that airlines simply could not keep up with this big onslaught of people. remember airlines got a lot smaller during the pandemic. just check flight alert. no major cancellations on tuesday or on wednesday. and tsa administrator david pitkosky tell me the agency and airlines have been coordinating on this for months. we re ready. we ve looked at passenger volume projections. we worked with the carriers and with the airports, and collectively we re ready for the thanksgiving holiday. we want to make it as safe and secure as we can. reporter: the tsa said sunday after thanksgiving is typically the busiest. that s why when everybody who left home for the holiday will begin coming home all at once. united airlines anticipates 450,000 people on its airline alone on sunday. pete muntean, cnn, regan
last year. so this is an incredible rebound. and airlines are really facing their biggest tests yet. look at the numbers so far. more than 2 million people a day since this time last week. the tsa anticipated a total of about 20 million people would take to the skies, a huge figure. a lot of concern that the airlines wouldn t be able to handle the big onslaught of folks because they got smaller during the pandemic. just check flight aware. 45 cancellations today. about 100 yesterday. so things are moving pretty smoothly. tsa administrator tells me exclusively that the industry has been preparing for this for months. here s what he said. we re ready. you know, we ve looked at passenger volume projections, we ve worked with the carriers and with the airports. collectively we re ready for the thanksgiving holiday. we want to make it as safe and secure and enjoyable for people
across the country because of that new federal vaccine mandate for workers. the tsa says 93% of its workers have been vaccinated, and tsa administrator david pikosky tells me that all of this preparation is leading up to this big rush. we re ready. you know, we ve looked at passenger volume projections. we work with carriers and with the airports, and collectively we re ready for the thanksgiving holiday. our goal is to make it as safe and secure and as enjoyable for people as we possibly can. reporter: let s get back to the sunday after thanksgiving. that is when we saw an all-time air travel record back in 2019. the tsa screened 2.9 million people nationwide on that day. the tsa says, we will come close to that number, but we re unlikely to clear it. christine, paula? thanks for that, pete. well, tsa promises notwithstanding there could still be some travel trouble this week from wind, rain and even snow.