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Busy travel day expected as millions head to Chicago airports

Airports are expecting 2.9 million passengers to travel between March 21, the beginning of spring break, to April 1.

CBS Chicago

11 hours ago

nearly three million people expected to go through Midway and O'Hare airports as spring break comes to an end for many people CBS Tu Sol res live right now at O'Hare with a look at what Travelers can expect if they're heading out for this holiday weekend Assa yeah Suzanne people can expect it to be busy on and off here take a look at uh the United terminal we're at right now at O'Hare you can see uh the line here at the security checkpoint uh starting to back up just a a little bit but I'll tell
you it's moving pretty quickly officials saying it's been a historically busy travel week with Holy Week celebrations Easter and spring break for Chicago Public Schools airport officials expecting 2.9 Million passengers to travel between March 21st that was the beginning of Spring Break to April 1st that's tomorrow busiest day so far in that stretch was Thursday the 28th numbers show more Chicago and traveling for spring break this year with O'Hare expecting 7% more Travelers than last year and
2.4% more over at Midway we talked to one family this morning who tried to beat the rush got here overnight from Michigan they're headed to Naples Florida well we thought we were beating the rush to get the shuttle this morning at at our hotel but there was a group of 21 people there and the shuttle only holds like 20 something people so we had to get an Uber like Snappy quick yeah Michael Carlson and his family there a great example of why you got to give yourself extra time to get here get th
rough TR traffic get any ride share cars that you may need to airport officials saying make sure to give yourself extra time to get through security here I'm live at O'Hare Rai cbs2 news thanks so much ass all

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@A3Kr0n

People are still willing to fly on United? LOL!