Ben Mutzabaugh

USA TODAY

This year’s holiday travel season is expected to lift the world’s busiest airport to new heights.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport set its all-time record for passengers in 2015 when more than 101.4 million air travelers passed through its terminals.That also marked the first time ever that a single airport had ever counted more than 100 million passengers in a calendar year.

Atlanta is world's first airport to hit 100 million passengers in year

Now, buoyed by a surge of more than 4 million fliers that will pass through the airport during the end-of-year holiday window, Atlanta is poised to break its own passenger record.

Atlanta airport officials say that “if projections hold true,” it likely will top the 100 million mark again sometime next week and surpass the record it set in 2015.

“We’re thrilled to top 100 million passengers in a single year, but maintaining our operational efficiency is just as important to us," airport spokesman Andrew Gobeil says to Today in the Sky. "It’s a testament to the professionalism of our staff, airline partners, and stakeholders that we’ve been named busiest and most efficient airport in the world for more than a decade.”

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