This Thanksgiving is expected to be the busiest travel holiday since the pandemic, according to AAA travel projections. Next week is expected to be busier than that. "Right now, projections don't have us as high as we were in 2019 but we are very, very close," he said. Matt Davis, the TSA federal security director for Utah, said security screening is now back to about 93% of 2019 volumes. Numbers at Salt Lake City International Airport are already picking up - close to levels before the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit the travel industry in March 2020. Agents end up collecting 500 to 1,000 pounds of seized items every month and, as Thanksgiving is expected to bring tens of thousands of travelers to the airport daily next week, the agency is looking to remind travelers what they can and can't bring as carry-on luggage. There's a reason why Dankers, a spokeswoman for the TSA, wants to point this out. These, Dankers says, are all items that Transportation Security Administration agents in Utah confiscated from travelers trying to sneak them into carry-on luggage at the airport over the past few days. There's a replica Claymore mine next to an airsoft gun, along with a deactivated grenade made into a sculpture of a fly, ammunition, various knives, power tools, a few bottles of hard liquor and what appears to be a toy truck driven by Santa Clause - but is actually a large snow globe. SALT LAKE CITY - Lorie Dankers points to an odd assortment of items sitting on a table at the Salt Lake City International Airport as travelers check in at airline gates behind her. Reading or replaying the story in itsĪrchived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Only for your personal, non-commercial use.
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