During the Thanksgiving travel season — which runs from November 17 through November 28 — the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects to screen about 30 million airline passengers. TSA Administrator David Pekoske stated: “We expect this holiday season to be our busiest ever. In 2023, we have already seen seven of the top 10 busiest travel days in TSA’s history."

Yahoo Finance Reporters Pras Subramanian, Josh Schafer, and Alexandra Canal break down the latest with holiday travel and what to expect this week.

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PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Well, you might be watching some TV at home but, and the subject of Thanksgiving is coming up here, but next week it's going to be the busiest ever when it comes to travel. I meant to say you might be watching some TV with your family and friends. But anyway, TSA says the period starting last Friday and through next Tuesday after Thanksgiving will see a record 30 million travelers at airports.

It's going to be slammed planes, trains, and automobiles style, the security line and airport terminals. Guys, the airlines have been telling people that expect busy time ahead. They've been slamming people in these planes for months now. What do you think. I mean, remember last year there was a Southwest fiasco. If you have a weather fiasco, or a tech fiasco, it's going to be madness.

ALEXANDRA CANAL: Yeah.

JOSH SCHAFER: It seems like some of the issues haven't fully gone away, right, as far as just the, it's not that smooth of a process anymore. It never feels like it is at the airports. And just like the simple delays seem to compound these days. I'm flying tomorrow morning. So--

ALEXANDRA CANAL: God speed.

JOSH SCHAFER: I'll give you the update. You sent this story this morning and the headline from TSA and I didn't feel too great about it. I mean, if it's going to be record travel, you think it's probably going to be a mess. But I guess I'll tell you guys next Monday how that actually goes for me.

ALEXANDRA CANAL: Yeah. I think it's been an interesting few years for the airlines. And you're seeing a lot of them start to change their frequent flyer and loyalty programs. Delta, American Airlines, British Airways, they're making it a little tougher on the consumer. They're really cracking down some of those prices because they're trying to make up for what happened during the pandemic. We'll see if that could maybe correct itself moving forward.

PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Yeah. I want to quickly add that Pete Buttigieg just tweeted out today about this saying, hey, we've put in rules in place, if the airline cancels your flight and it's not your fault, you get hotel, you have meal vouchers, make sure you ask for it. Because they know how much heat they took last year when people want to blame the government too for this.