48,000 flights. you can expect airports to be packed today as well. omar is at o hare airport. how s it looking there? reporter: people are feeling the prepandemic levels a lot more so even than last year which was a different environment. o hare one of the world s busiest. things have calmed down a little bit, but this morning things were packed shoulder to shoulder here as that first wave of flights on this busy travel day took off. when you look at it country wide, you mention some of those numbers nearly 55 million people expected to travel, up from last year and comparable to 2019 levels. when it comes to flying, flying expected to be up 8% compared to last year with 99% of that prepandemic 2019 volume. the vast majority of people will be driving.
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soaring, and that is because they put out promising outlook for the future. american airlines has demanded as strong as they ve ever seen you see right there with almost pre-pandemic numbers of people going through tsa checkpoints across the country yesterday. american airline says it s expecting record revenue in this current quarter, they also expect to be profitable for the first time since the pandemic started this quarter, that puts them in line with delta and united, sander, which also expect a hit profitability this year. we have seen some false starts with air travel recovery throughout the pandemic with the vaccine rollout, than omicron hit, that changed everything. but it does seem like it is back for real this time. we will see. sandra: we will see is right. a very busy chicago o hare airport behind you, grady, think he. it trace? trace: we also do horrifying images from last week s subway attack in new york but even as people ran for their lives they show their face mas