Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 12:07am
AAA predicts turkey day travel increase
| By Frank Gerace
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Triple-A projects a slight increase in Thanksgiving weekend travel this year over last.
The auto club's 2009 Thanksgiving travel survey says about 38 and a half million
Americans will travel 50 miles or farther from home this year, up about 1 and a half
percent from last year.
2 point 3 million will travel by air, a decrease of nearly 7 percent, and the number
traveling by train, bus or other means will be nearly 3 million, up by slightly more than
1 percent.
Triple-A Mid-Atlantic's Cathy Rossi says long-distance travel last Thanksgiving
weekend was down significantly due to the crises in the financial and housing markets,
and this year's expected increase reflects renewed consumer confidence.
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