Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) may be delightfully tiny, but it punches far above its weight, especially when it comes to the year-end travel rush. A new analysis by Upgraded Points ranked the West Palm Beach airport No. 1 in the nation for international holiday travel thanks to exceptionally short customs wait times. The company told Travel + Leisure passengers had to wait an average of just 3.8 minutes, the shortest of all 41 major airports analyzed.
Labor Day weekend is almost here and while you may be dreaming of beach chairs, lake houses or a few blissful days without Slack notifications, there's one unavoidable truth: Getting out of town is going to be a nightmare. The Port Authority is bracing for a record-breaking 6.6 million travelers between Thursday, August 28, and Tuesday, September 2-which means jammed tunnels, crawling bridges and airports that feel like human ant farms.