ORLANDO, Fla. — One of the busiest travel days of the year is underway.

While more than 4.2 million Floridians are set to hit the roads this year, close to two million travelers will be passing through Orlando International Airport this holiday weekend.

What You Need To Know

Day six of the busy holiday travel period underway at MCO

GOAA officials predict there will be nearly 1.9 million passengers passing through Orlando International throughout the 12-day stretch

The busiest travel day is expected to be Sunday, November 30th with more than 177,000 passengers moving through MCO

Travelers not taking any chances due to recent airline disruptions and potential delays

The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority (GOAA) predicts that there will be as many as 1.9 million travelers passing through MCO throughout the course of the 12-day travel period at MCO- which began Friday, November 21st and ends on Tuesday, December 2nd.

The busiest travel day is expected on Sunday, November 30th, when most people are returning home, with more than 177,000 passengers.

Although airport officials anticipate a lot of passengers will be moving through the terminals, GOAA officials say they are ready.

And they want to remind travelers of a couple things before they make their way to the airport:

Be patient
Download the MCO app for the latest parking information and TSA checkpoint times
Those who are concerned about parking can use the parking reservation option
Adhere to the 3-2-1 rule (be at the ticket 3 hours before departure, at TSA security checkpoint 2 hours before and at the gate 1 hour before boarding)

Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at GOAA, Angela Starke, says all of the parking lots and garages are going to be open, as well as overflow if need be.

It may have been less than two weeks since the end of the shutdown, but Starke says there was no major impact to the airport’s operations because of callouts.

 “Operations here did not really falter because of the shutdown,” said Angela Starke “And that is thanks to the great integrity and commitment and dedication of our federal partners who came to work every day despite not being paid and so we did not see a big fall off on operations as a lot of airports do.”

Some travelers that were flying home for the holidays on Wednesday said they didn’t want to take any chances due to recent airlines disruptions and potential delays.

“We were contemplating driving if the stuff with the shutdown didn’t change,” says Gerald Harsley Jr. who was traveling to St. Louis with his wife and son.

Embry-Riddle University student, Rohit Ambati, made sure to get to the airport three hours in advance for his flight home to Dallas.

“I actually had to drop my friends off at the airport yesterday and it was pretty bad. It took about 20 minutes just to get from the entrance to the airport all the way to the start of the terminal. I got here at like 4 AM, it was alright so it’s not too big, but you can definitely tell it’s Thanksgiving,” says Ambati.

Besides a gate change, traveler Janey Landfair, says her travel experience from MCO to San Antonio was smooth sailing so far.

Like Harsley, she too was apprehensive about the shutdown’s impact on Thanksgiving travel but she says now there’s nothing to be concerned about.

“I was very surprised that the security line is not very long at all,” she says.