{"id":461889,"date":"2026-10-10T05:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461889\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T05:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T05:24:13","slug":"another-busy-day-at-austin-airport-as-more-than-37000-travelers-depart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461889\/","title":{"rendered":"Another busy day at Austin airport as more than 37,000 travelers depart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is expecting another busy day Friday, with more than 37,000 passengers set to depart, a day after the airport <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-airport-expects-more-than-40000-departing-travelers-thursday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">saw one of its busiest days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lines at Checkpoint 1 and 4 were already moderately long by 4 a.m., according to the airport. Lines at Checkpoints 2 and 3 were shorter, but airport officials warned travelers not to let that fool them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/austin-airport-expects-more-than-40000-departing-travelers-thursday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE | Austin airport expects more than 40,000 departing travelers Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>AUS recommends arriving at least 2.5 hours before a domestic flight and three hours before an international flight, especially for travelers who need to return a rental car or check bags. <\/p>\n<p>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, according to AUS.<\/p>\n<p>The rush comes as many students are off for 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>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 another busy day Friday, with more than 37,000 passengers set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-461889","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\/461889","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=461889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}