SALT LAKE CITY – The numbers don’t lie, and in Utah at least, the numbers show Americans are traveling at full speed again.
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As of Monday lunchtime, over 82,400 passengers had traveled through Salt Lake City International Airport on the Memorial Day holiday weekend. These numbers refer to the number of passengers coming through the airport front door only and do not include those flying over Salt Lake City.
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On Friday, 23,760 people traveled through the facility, more than in 2019, almost a full year before the pandemic lockdown.
- FRIDAY – 23,760 passengers
- SATURDAY – 18.200
- SUNDAY – 18,000
- MONDAY – 22.470
The totals were a long way from 2020, when the airport struggled with a pandemic-stricken daily high of just 5,000 passengers that same weekend.
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