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There’s no place like home for the holidays, and there are record numbers of people is expected to travel this year
The AAA auto club expects 119.3 million people to travel 50 miles or more between Dec. 21 and Jan. 1, about 3 million more than last year.
If his prediction comes true, holiday travel in 2024 would surpass the previous record set in 2019 by 64,000 travelers.
“This year, with Christmas Day falling on a Wednesday, we’re anticipating record numbers of trips the weekend before and the weekend after the holiday,” said AAA Vice President of Travel Stacey Barber .
AAA expects air travel to set a new record this holiday season of nearly 7.9 million people, up from 7.5 million last year.
So is the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). anticipating heavy traffic.
The TSA said this week it expects to screen nearly 40 million people between Dec. 19 and Jan. 2, up 6.2 percent from 2023. Dec. 20, 27 and 30 are expected be the busiest days.
If the government shut down on Saturday, it likely wouldn’t immediately affect flights and airport operations. But the longer the potential shutdown drags on, the worse the situation will get.
Long waiting times, delays and cancellations could pile up if large numbers of TSA employees and air traffic controllers, who would continue to work without pay until the government is funded, call in sick as they did during the last stop of 2019.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Friday morning that Republicans do came to plan C to avoid a shutdown after plan B it couldn’t happen Thursday evening
Almost 90 percent of travelers will drive to their destination, a stop-proof method of transportation. AAA expects 107 million people to travel by car, down slightly from 2019’s record of 108 million people.
