{"id":63543,"date":"2025-11-28T15:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/63543\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:27:24","slug":"holiday-travel-surge-hits-miami-international-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/63543\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday travel surge hits Miami International Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0November 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM<\/p>\n<p>Holiday travel rush in full swing at Miami International Airport The post-Thanksgiving travel rush was in full swing at Miami International Airport on Friday morning.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 The post-Thanksgiving travel rush was in full swing Friday morning, with Miami International Airport jam-packed as travelers made their way home after the holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/11\/28\/auge-de-viajeros-por-el-feriado-llena-el-aeropuerto-internacional-de-miami\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2025\/11\/28\/auge-de-viajeros-por-el-feriado-llena-el-aeropuerto-internacional-de-miami\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Federal Aviation Administration estimates more than 55 million Americans traveled for Thanksgiving this year, making it one of the busiest holiday travel periods in years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At MIA, long security lines stretched through parts of the terminal, and many passengers said they were feeling the effects of the holiday backup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI live in Guadeloupe, so I was spending the night here yesterday and I\u2019m taking Air France now to go to Guadeloupe,\u201d said Camille Juban, a traveler headed home to celebrate the holiday a day late but still with family. \u201cAll my family is back in Guadeloupe &#8230; so I was just waiting to join them, and I\u2019m going to celebrate this weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Juban was one of many international travelers connecting through Miami as they made their way home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For others, Miami was just the start of their holiday plans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">One woman said she spent Thanksgiving in the city and was now traveling to Gainesville, Florida, to see her son and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI had Thanksgiving with my mom and my whole family, it was wonderful. Then up bright and early to visit my son and daughter-in-law,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Friday is one of the busiest travel days of the holiday weekend, but Sunday is expected to be the peak, with more than 3.7 million passengers projected to fly nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Isabella Martin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/09e8bd89-5433-45a7-b775-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Isabella Martin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Isabella Martin joined the reporting team at WPLG in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM Updated:\u00a0November 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM Holiday travel rush in full swing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-63543","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}