Air Travel For Thanksgiving Holiday Forecasted At 25.3 Million Travelers

Now that Halloween has passed, all focus turns to Thanksgiving and the kick off to the holiday season.  Thanksgiving is traditionally is busy time for traveling, but thanks to plane fuel costs falling 36% over the past year, airlines have begun to cut ticket prices very slightly.  Currently, Thanksgiving this year is forecasted to see a 3% rise in air travelers year over year, to 25.3 million air passengers.  The trade group notes that this is the busiest Thanksgiving the airline industry has seen since the 2008 recession.

Estimates of 1.4 to 2.7 million...

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