People who plan to travel by plane over the Thanksgiving holiday next week will face the longest lines and busiest airports ever seen, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

Flights across the United States will be stuffed in the coming weeks as 30 million passengers flock to terminals between Friday, Nov. 17, and Tuesday, Nov. 28, the TSA announced Monday.

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“We expect this holiday season to be our busiest ever. In 2023, we have already seen seven of the top 10 busiest travel days in TSA’s history,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske said in a statement Monday.

TSA anticipates setting a new all-time record for single-day travel given the likelihood that screenings will surpass 2.9 million on Sunday, Nov. 26. It would become the busiest travel day in the federal agency's two decades.

The surge in travelers will gobble up TSA resources, but Pekoske said the agency has carved out a plan to keep wait times for TSA PreCheck flyers at less than 10 minutes and standard screening times under 30 minutes.

The airline industry has roared back after a difficult few years. The pre-pandemic record for daily TSA screenings was 2.795 million on July 2, 2019, according to TSA data. That record was broken this summer on June 30, when officers processed 2.884 million passengers.

This year, the TSA has documented several days with 2.8 million passengers screened.

To ensure quick throughput, the TSA reminded passengers to review guidelines for what can be packed or carried onto planes, particularly gun and ammunition protocols. More airports since last year have rolled out scanning machines that no longer require passengers to take out laptops and liquids, making the screening process faster and more thorough.

Gun seizures at U.S. airports nationwide have risen this year, so much so that security checkpoint officers are seizing them at a rate equivalent to nearly every hour of every day.

Airline passengers are increasingly getting caught and arrested for attempting to bring guns aboard aircraft, putting the U.S. on target to surpass last year's record high of 6,542 seizures.

The TSA warned in October that its approximate 50,000 officers nationwide are on target to blaze past last year's record after officers had a high third quarter with 1,820 firearms nabbed between July and September.

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Pekoske, the only Senate-confirmed official at the Department of Homeland Security to have been held over since the Trump administration, said the agency is well staffed and retaining officers as a result of the recent boost in pay approved by Congress.

Earlier this summer, TSA employees received a 30% pay raise, which Pekoske said was one reason attrition has declined.