Tips for flying out of Phoenix Sky Harbor after Super Bowl LVII

PHOENIX — The Valley is internet hosting lots of of hundreds of holiday makers this week for Tremendous Bowl LVII, they usually should go residence in some unspecified time in the future.

That’s why Phoenix Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport is making ready to see its highest variety of vacationers on document Monday after the confetti has fallen at State Farm Stadium.

In 2015, the final time Arizona hosted the massive recreation, Sky Harbor noticed 175,000 vacationers the next Monday and is anticipating much more visitors.

“This yr had been anticipating about 180,000 individuals to come back via the airport that Monday after the Tremendous Bowl,” Sky Harbor Communications and Outreach Administrator Heather Shelbrack informed KTAR Information 92.3 FM. “Monday after Tremendous Bowl would be the single busiest day of the yr.

“In the event you’re flying that Monday after the Tremendous Bowl, we would like you to get right here additional early.”

Shelbrack mentioned the typical Monday consists of 120,000 individuals coming via the airport and 1,200 arrival and departure flights. The Monday after the massive recreation is predicted to have 1,500 flights out and in.

The airport is pushing its 5-4-3-2-1 technique for vacationers to make their journeys:

• Try of the lodge or residence rental 5 hours earlier than the flight
• Flip in any rental vehicles 4 hours earlier than takeoff
• Test in at ticket counter three hours prior
• Get in line on the TSA safety checkpoint two hours earlier than
• Attain the gate an hour earlier than flight time

For drivers, checking roadways earlier than heading to the airport may make a distinction with anticipated elevated visitors. To these dropping off passengers, Shelbrack recommends doing so on the PHX Sky Practice stations at forty fourth and Washington streets and twenty fourth Avenue and Buckeye Highway. Vacationers can take the free trams to their terminals.

The twenty fourth Avenue Station opened in December to assist bridge the Rental Automotive Heart to the airport.

Sky Harbor additionally encourages guests to verify their baggage forward of time. Early Bag Test is obtainable Sunday and Monday for these taking American, Delta, Southwest or United flights, and people utilizing the service should achieve this at the least 90 minutes forward of their departure time.

The PHX RESERVE program is one other instrument to save lots of time in on the safety verify level, as vacationers can reserve a spot in line as much as six days earlier than their flight. Safety checkpoint line occasions shall be accessible to watch on-line and on screens on the airport.

Sky Harbor has been making ready for submit Tremendous Bowl Monday with the Phoenix Aviation Division for greater than a yr and can have elevated employees and volunteers to help these coming out and in.

“We can have additional volunteers readily available along with our navigators simply recognizable of their purple jackets,” Shelbrack mentioned. “We’ll in fact have extra airport employees in addition to Tremendous Bowl Host Committee volunteers who shall be on website to reply questions.”

KTAR Information 92.3 FM’s Taylor Kinnerup contributed to this report.