{"id":460167,"date":"2026-10-08T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460167\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:20:07","slug":"austin-airport-expects-more-than-40000-departing-travelers-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/460167\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin airport expects more than 40,000 departing travelers Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is expecting one of its busiest days ever Thursday, with more than 40,000 passengers set to depart.<\/p>\n<p>That would rank among the airport&#8217;s 10 busiest days. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-council-member-acl-operator-to-cover-cost-of-damage-to-zilker-per-agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | ACL operator to cover cost of damage to Zilker Park, per agreement with city<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rush comes as many students head into a four-day weekend and visitors arrive for the second weekend of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, which begins Friday at Zilker Park.<\/p>\n<p>Airport officials recommend arriving at least 2.5 hours before a domestic flight and three hours before an international flight, and say travelers should be prepared for lines at TSA checkpoints, airline ticket counters and elsewhere in the terminal.<\/p>\n<p>Additional airport staff are on site to help travelers, according to AUS.<\/p>\n<p>More travel tips are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/flyaustin.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flyaustin.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is expecting one of its busiest days ever Thursday, with more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-460167","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\/460167","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=460167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}