Holiday travel advice debunked
November 23, 2009 ·
Take your car in for a tune-up. Give yourself extra time if you’re flying. Oh, and it’s going to be one for the record books. You’ve read that before, haven’t you? When it comes to the travel tips you see just before every major holiday, you can count on paint-by-numbers reporting: a AAA prediction followed [...]
Holiday travelers waited longer to book this year
November 23, 2009 ·
Holiday travelers waited a little longer to book their flights this year, likely holding out for better deals and waiting to see if they would still have a job. And some aren’t going at all. Travelocity reports that the average advance purchase fell to 55 days for Thanksgiving travel this year. That’s 2.6 days later [...]
More Americans expected to travel for Thanksgiving
November 22, 2009 ·
The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club. The group, which surveyed 1,350 households, said there will be about 33.2 million people traveling by car this year — a 2.1 percent increase from last year. [...]
Tips for smart, healthy holiday travel
November 20, 2009 ·
As if traveling with the kids over the holidays weren’t tough enough, this year we must contend with airline surcharges and swine flu, as well as all the usual annoyances and delays that go along with traveling — especially with children — during the busiest travel weeks of the year. There is some good news, [...]
Thanksgiving travel: Highways will be more crowded
November 18, 2009 ·
Holiday travel expected to rise by 1.4% from last year, but fewer Americans will fly, AAA says. After a sharp drop last year, more Americans are expected to travel for the 2009 Thanksgiving holiday, although travel by air will decline, according to a forecast from motorist group AAA issued Wednesday. AAA said that 38.4 million [...]
45 percent in survey will travel in next 4 months
November 16, 2009 ·
Forty-five percent of U.S. consumers will take a vacation or leisure trip between Thanksgiving and March that involves paying for overnight accommodations, according to a new survey released Monday by Deloitte LLP. Eighteen percent of those surveyed said they would take a trip during Thanksgiving week and weekend. Twenty-two percent said they would travel at [...]
Holiday airfares close to last year but climbing
November 9, 2009 ·
If holiday travelers on the same plane compare what they paid to fly, they’re likely to find quite a spread, depending on when they bought their tickets. Fares for travel around the holidays have been rising since late summer. Christmas fares are now running 4 percent below a year ago, and the gap is likely [...]
