ATLANTA — If you are headed out of town tonight, you'll be sharing the road with a record-setting crowd.
The American Automobile Association predicted Atlanta's worst travel day would be today between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. AAA predicted 3.3 million Georgians will travel starting today through Jan. 1, 2019, and that more people will fly this holiday season than in the last 15 years.
Channel 2's Rikki Klaus is at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, where security wait times are less than 15 minutes, but traffic around the airport is heavy.
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Some drivers experienced travel times four times longer than normal.
"It's just a whole lot of people on the road right now," driver Benny Hunna said. "It's overcrowded."
Hartsfield was expecting to host almost 4 million travelers from Dec. 16 to Jan. 2. 2019. Officials are reminding passengers to use MARTA and ride-sharing services and to check airport and airline sites for flight updates online.