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The Americans set a new home record to travel by plane 2025 as travel patterns change, new analysis finds.
AAA Northeast examined several years of Transportation Security Administration (TSA) data and found that more than 904 million travelers passed through a TSA checkpoint last year, an increase of 2.57 million passengers compared to 2024.
That figure marks a new annual record for domestic air travel, although the year-over-year increase was less than 1% growth – much cooler than in previous years.
By comparison, the number of passengers passing through TSA checkpoints increased by 5.3% in 2024 from 2023, increased by 13% from 2022.
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AAA Northeast found that 2025 set a record for domestic air travel, although the growth rate is slowing. (Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Fewer travelers flew on Monday and Tuesday in 2025, with passenger capacity decreased by 0.39% and 3%, while more travelers caught flights on Thursdays and Sundays with increases of 1.89% and 1.87%, respectively.
The AAA report noted that the data could show “softening business travel at the beginning of the work week and the continuing energy for leisure travel, which usually occurs around the weekends.”
The data also showed that 2025 had a lower number of passengers in the first half of the year compared to 2024, with four of the first six months of last year showing a decrease in numbers compared to 2024.
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The number of busy travel days increased in 2025 despite a modest year-over-year increase in overall travel. (Reuters/Maja Smiejkowska)
In January 2025 the number of passengers increased by 1.75%, although February decreased by 2.97%. A 0.17% decline in March and a 0.23% gain in April were followed by declines of 1.48% in May and 0.45% in June.
Passenger numbers also increased around the Fourth of July holiday, with the month of July seeing a 1.16% increase, and the momentum continued through October when volumes were up 3.63% year-over-year.
The holiday season was slower in 2025 than in 2024, as prices fell 0.15% in November and 0.08% in December. AAA suggested that the decline may be due to the effects of government shutdownalthough it added that travel during the actual shutdown was 2.2% higher than a year earlier after falling 6.2% in the final week of the shutdown.
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Holiday travel was slower in 2025 than in 2024, AAA Northeast reports. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
AAA also noted that there was an increase in the number of busy days with more than 3 million passengers passing through TSA checkpoints.
There were eight such days in 2025, as May 23, June 22, July 6, July 13, July 20, July 27, Oct. 10 and Nov. 30 all had a peak passenger count of 3 million. In contrast, there were only two such dates in 2024: July 7 and Dec. 1.
The TSA also set a record for the largest passenger volume twice in 2025: On June 22, 3.09 million passengers were checked, while on November 30 they broke a new record with 3.13 million passengers.
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