(Reuters) — Orlando cracked a list of the world s top 10 busiest airports by passengers for the first time last year, as the home of the Walt Disney World and
home this morning after the first normal holiday get-together in almost two years. airlines call today the busiest travel day of the year. triple-a predicting more than 4 million people traveling by air over the holidays. three kids. a lot of luggage. car seats. busy airport. but it s going. reporter: tsa chief dividend pikaski. we re close to 2019 pre-pandemic levels. reporter: it s not all friendly skies. reports of almost 5,000 unruly passengers this year. the airport is an emotional place. some people are running late, some are delayed, you have people getting ready to leave for a while and they kind of tend to act out if things don t go their way. reporter: the justice department stepping up prosecution of unruly air passengers. on board disturbances and violence can mean steep fines. jail time and getting banned for life by that airline. from the runways to the highways, most americans heading home today will hit the road. 48 million behind the wheel.
passengers. they ve ruined so many of their vacations. something the airline will be revisiting as part of the postmortem as it tries to prevent this from ever happening again. many passengers have criticized the airline saying it should have anticipated this and canceled these flights well in advance. at the same time, spirit is a much smaller air carrier so at the beginning of the week with the weather you had a larger carrier like american having to cancel flights but it was only a small percentage of its overall flights. it was able to absorb that much better than a smaller discount airline like spirit. dana: jonathan serrie at the airport in atlanta. thank you so much. busy airport. governor of arkansas reversing course saying he regrets signing a law that banned mask mandates in the state. this comes as covid infection rates are soaring among unvaccinated kids and teens in that state. the governor now says he wants to reverse the ban.
they re living in fear of reprisals after being rejected. britain has already relocated more than 2,000 local afghan staff. let s get some of the day s other news. a covid outbreak first discovered in the chinese city of nanjing has spread to eight provinces and to the capital, beijing. state media say it s the most extensive outbreak since wuhan. almost 200 people have been infected since the virus was first detected at the city s busy airport on 20thjuly. all flights from nanjing airport will be suspended for the next two weeks. australia s third largest city, brisbane, is to go into lockdown again in another attempt to contain the spread of the delta variant of coronavirus. the deputy premier of queensland said millions of residents in brisbane and several other areas would be ordered to stay at home for three days. more than 400,000 covid 19 vaccines are due to arrive in kenya as part