Strong Holiday Numbers Recorded at STL

The 2022 total is just under the number recorded in 2019

November 29, 2022 | 2 min reading time

This article is 3 years old. It was published on November 29, 2022.

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL) completed its tracking of passenger numbers going through airport security during the recently completed Thanksgiving Day Holiday travel period. It shows that a total of 185,562 passengers went through airport security checkpoints in Terminals One and Two this Thanksgiving holiday travel period. This is just under 14-thousand less than those who went through the airport's security checkpoints in 2019, prior to the start of of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The complete day-by-day numbers are found below:

Holiday Travel Numbers at STL
Day 2022 Date 2022 2019 Date 2019
Friday 11/18/2022 18,497 11/22/2019 19,581
Saturday 11/19/2022 14,922 11/23/2019 14,733
Sunday 11/20/2022 15,549 11/24/2019 14,831
Monday 11/21/2022 15,479 11/25/2019 15,403
Tuesday 11/22/2022 18,428 11/26/2019 20,152
Wednesday 11/23/2022 18,981 11/27/2019 21,509
Thursday 11/24/2022 9,738 11/28/2019 10,095
Friday 11/25/2022 15,142 11/29/2019 15,067
Saturday 11/26/2022 18,114 11/30/2019 20,411
Sunday 11/27/2022 21,428 12/1/2019 24,897
Monday 11/28/2022 19,284 12/2/2019 21,970
Totals   185,562   198,649

(These numbers are passengers going though TSA security and do not include connecting or arriving passengers.)

Note: When using this travel data please credit or courtesy TSA.

  • Contact Information:
    Roger Lotz
    Public Information Officer
  • Department:
    St. Louis Lambert International Airport
  • Topic:
    Airports

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