DENVER, Colo. — Denver International Airport is once again expecting to smash records on yet another holiday weekend.
More than 444,500 passengers were expected to travel through DIA’s TSA checkpoints between Thursday, August 29 and Tuesday, September 3.
Friday and Monday are anticipated to be the busiest days in that time period, with more than 177,895 passengers expected on those days.
Evan Suhr was one of those passengers checking into his flight home from a work trip on Friday.
“Yeah, when [my company] said, ‘You’re going to be flying home Labor Day weekend,’ I said, ‘that sounds like it could be fun,’” he laughed, “but so far, yeah, it hasn’t been too bad.”
Many of the passengers Denver7 spoke to on Friday happened to be relatively new travelers on business trips.
Jaylen Moore was one of those travelers.
“I’m like ‘Ahh!’ I’ve never been to an airport and this is my second time flying so this is …