Cherry Capital Airport Clocked Its Busiest Days Ever Over The Fourth Of July Weekend

Things aren’t slowing down at Traverse City’s Cherry Capital Airport (TVC). Fresh off a spring so busy it spurred the airport to kick start an emergency parking expansion, TVC has announced its latest run of record-breaking activity.

TVC shared on Facebook yesterday (Tuesday) that the Fourth of July holiday weekend – which also coincided with the end of the 99th annual National Cherry Festival – had brought the two highest-traffic days in the airport’s history. On Saturday, July 5, the airport tallied a TSA customer throughput of 3,846 passengers, its biggest day ever. TVC promptly broke that record the very next day, with Sunday, July 6 seeing 3,992 enplaned passengers.

Judging by recent history, those records are unlikely to stand for long. The previous high-water mark for daily passengers at TVC came just a few weeks ago, with the airport hitting a then-record 3,254 passengers on Sunday, June 22 of this year. Before that, TVC’s busiest day ever had been Sunday, August 11, 2024, when the count was 3,168 passengers.

At this point, all of the top 10 busiest days in TVC’s history occurred in either 2024 or 2025.