{"id":231938,"date":"2026-06-30T16:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231938\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T16:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:21:06","slug":"phl-projects-5-more-travelers-for-july-4-holiday-than-last-year-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231938\/","title":{"rendered":"PHL projects 5% more travelers for July 4 holiday than last year \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As travel ramps up for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday and Philadelphia&#8217;s final FIFA World Cup match, the Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) is expecting more than half a million passengers during the first week of July.<\/p>\n<p>PHL officials said they expect more than 681,000 arriving and departing passengers this upcoming week, a 5% increase from the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>These are the projected numbers, per PHL:<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, July 1: 98,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 2: 102,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 3: 98,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, July 4: 74,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, July 5: 108,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Monday, July 6: 102,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, July 7: 99,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>However, the busy travel period at PHL is not ending anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>As passengers extend their holiday vacations and head to Philly for the the MLB All-Star Game activities, the airport anticipates welcoming approximately 601,000 arriving and departing travelers July 10-15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Projected daily travel for that week is:<\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 10: 101,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, July 11: 112,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Sunday, July 12: 104,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Monday, July 13: 92,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, July 14: 90,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, July 15: 102,000 total arriving\/departing passengers<\/p>\n<p>Guests heading to Philadelphia for the FIFA World Cup, Welcome America and MLB All-Star activities can check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phl.org\/welcome2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">PHL\u2019s 2026 informational website here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As travel ramps up for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday and Philadelphia&#8217;s final FIFA World Cup match,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,1013,70],"class_list":["post-231938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-international-airport","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}