Thanksgiving Travel May Set Records Amid Soaring Gas, Airline Tix

Bloomberg:

U.S. travelers may drive and fly in record numbers for the Thanksgiving holiday, facing airport delays, surging gasoline prices and the biggest one-month jump in airfares.

``People are so resigned to the cost that they're not even paying attention anymore,'' said David Brennan, 32, a hospital engineer from Alexandria, Virginia, who plans to drive 218 miles (351 kilometers) to New Jersey tonight with his wife and two daughters.

He and his family are among an estimated 38.7 million people who will travel more than 50 miles from home for Thanksgiving, according to the American Automobile Association of Heathrow, Florida. That would top the previous mark of 38.1 million travelers last year.

Read the whole story: Bloomberg

Comments

[dgscol]

People need to run their own campaign with the presidential contenders this holiday season. We should boycott Chinese goods (especially untested and possibly leaded toys) to stop outsourcing of labor; and we should avoid travel to fight with the Arabs to lower the price.

It makes me so angry, that politicians deliberately left our children be subjected to poisons in these toys for a period of five years, without telling us. Not even a leak.

[ohiomark]

Record travel?

I guess the economy doesn't suck afterall.

[Blutus]

I no longer believe these stories
about mobs on the roads, the airports, etc.

People I know, including family, are not travelling nearly as much as they used to.

It is not just 9/11. It is also the price of gas, the poor service airlines provide anymore
and the general inconvenience of it all.

These stories are wishful thinking I feel.
People are getting more and more afraid.
Mainly of the economy and not terrorists.

[curiousasheck]

(Post It Snip)

"Has it occurred to anybody that if we could run choo-choo trains between cities a few hundred miles apart -- say from Cleveland to Columbus Ohio -- we could decongest the airports overnight?"