{"id":358401,"date":"2026-07-02T10:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358401\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T10:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:04:35","slug":"aus-expecting-over-35k-departing-passengers-thursday-ahead-of-fourth-of-july-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358401\/","title":{"rendered":"AUS expecting over 35K departing passengers Thursday ahead of Fourth of July weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin airport is expecting a surge of passengers on Thursday, this as travel ramps up ahead of the Fourth of July weekend.<\/p>\n<p>AUS says that over 35,000 passengers are expected to depart from the airport today.<\/p>\n<p>The airport says this will likely cause longer lines at TSA security checkpoints and airline ticket counters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/clear-alert-issued-for-missing-man-last-seen-wednesday-in-san-antonio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | Clear Alert issued for missing man last seen Wednesday in San Antonio<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Passengers are asked to arrive up to three hours early for their flights from Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The airport also says that additional staff will be on-site to assist with the crowds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Austin airport is expecting a surge of passengers on Thursday, this as travel ramps&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-358401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}