Ticker: Record passengers over Thanksgiving weekend; Google eyes dormant accounts for deletion  

A record number of passengers traveled through U.S. airports over Thanksgiving weekend, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday.

The TSA said it screened just over 2.9 million passengers on Sunday, surpassing the previous record of 2.88 million set on June 30. That was 10% more than the Sunday after Thanksgiving last year.

Of that total, more than 94,000 were screened at New England airports, according to the agency’s regional office.

Travel was relatively smooth despite the crowds. On Sunday, just 55 flights within, into or out of the U.S. were cancelled, according to FlightAware, a tracking service. Nearly 8,000 flights were delayed, including several hundred that were impacted by snow in Denver and Chicago.

Brett Snyder, president of the airline industry blog Cranky Flier, said Thanksgiving was a “remarkably good weekend for the country’s airlines.”

Between Tuesday and Sunday, no airlines canceled more than 1% of their flights, he said.

Google eyes dormant accounts for deletion

Have a Google account you haven’t used in a while?

If you want to keep it from disappearing, you should check on it before the end of the week.

Under Google’s updated inactive-account policy, which the tech giant announced back in May, accounts that haven’t been used in at least two years could be deleted. Eligible profiles will start being impacted on Friday. Google attributed its inactive-account update to security concerns.

The easiest way to keep your Google account active (and thus prevent it from being deleted) is to sign in at least once every two years. Other actions that fulfill account activity include scrolling through emails, using Google search and watching YouTube videos all while signed into your Google account.

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