The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday that it is gearing up for the busiest time of air travel of the year with the Thanksgiving holiday — but also shared that it predicts this will be the busiest travel period in the last 15 years.

The FAA said in a release that there are more than 360,000 flights across the country this Thanksgiving holiday travel season. The organization expects Tuesday, Nov. 25, to be the busiest day of the nine-day travel period, with 52,000 flights that day alone.

The busy travel time comes just after the federal government shutdown ended earlier this month and impacted air travel.

The FAA lifted all shutdown-related flight restrictions on Monday, after announcing a 4% flight reduction in 40 major airports during the lapse in funding. There were con

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