ATLANTA - The Labor Day holiday travel period is kicking off, which means that a lot of Georgians are planning to hit the road and take to the skies to celebrate the unofficial end of summer.

In Atlanta, Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport is ready for one of the busiest times of the year.

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By the numbers:

Airport officials say they're expecting around 2.3 million passengers from Aug. 27 through Sept. 3.

That high traffic can come with long wait times, full parking lots, and packed plane travel.

While those numbers seem enormous, officials say it's actually the slowest holiday travel period of the summer. More than 2.6 million people came through the airport during the Memorial Day holiday. The

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