According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), more than 2.9 million people traveled by air in the United States on the Sunday after Thanksgiving 2023—more than on any day in the history of the airplane. That number broke a record set less than five months earlier, on the Friday before the Fourth of July, and the new record may not last long: Industry analysts predict the Friday before Christmas 2003 will be another blockbuster. So we took a trip of our own, into the Atlas Obscura archives for amazing stories…
