AAA projects over 119 million people to travel 50 miles or more from home over the year-end holiday period, which runs from Saturday, December 21 through January 1st. AAA Missouri spokesman Nick Chabarria said domestic travel projections show more travelers this year compared to the previous record set in 2019.
“At risk of sounding like a broken record here, I know we’ve been talking about holiday travel and breaking records really for the past couple of years now, but we are expecting another record to be set in terms of number of travelers during those dates,” he said.
Chabarria said that people just want to get out and travel.
“Whether that’s tied to kind of the shutdown where they weren’t able to travel or they’re just feeling more confident being able to travel or the economy, but whatever reasons it is, it’s a trend that we’ve been seeing now for really a couple of years,” said Chabarria.
But with Christmas and New Year’s being on a Wednesday this year, the holiday travel period may go a little bit smoother with driving or flying being spread out over two weekends.
“Especially travel on the holidays themselves on Christmas and New Year’s,” he said. “You know some of the best days to travel in terms of volume because it’s usually pretty light and easy to get around, but, yeah, I mean it’s going to be spread out. People aren’t all going to be leaving on one day. So, that should alleviate some of the congestion.”
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