#thanksgiving-travel

#thanksgiving-travel

The Thanksgiving travel period is in full swing. Today is the last day before Thanksgiving, which means millions of Americans will be taking to the skies to reach their holiday destinations. And myriad more will also be traveling to airports to pick up their incoming loved ones. But on one of the busiest travel days of the year, flight delays and cancellations are inevitable. Here are some tools to track delays, along with information on which airports are currently experiencing the worst delays and cancellations.

The majority of that travel both to and from Turkey Day destinations is expected to kick off tomorrow, Tuesday, November 25, and run through Monday, December 1, which are the dates the American Automobile Association (AAA) defines as the 2025 Thanksgiving holiday period. It's the busiest travel period for Americans, even beating out holidays like the Fourth of July and Christmas.

In this week's air travel developments, the government rescinded its mandatory flight cutbacks for U.S. airlines as record passenger numbers are expected over the Thanksgiving period - although some flyers may have changed their plans during the recent spike in cancellations and delays; Southwest Airlines enhances passenger check-in procedures; the Transportation Department drops a proposed mandate for airlines to compensate passengers whose flights face lengthy delays; Delta ends a California transcontinental route, and Frontier pulls out of Palm Springs; JetBlue adds two more European destinations,

Thanksgiving week is one of the most hectic times to find yourself in an airport. In 2023, the TSA recorded the Sunday after the holiday as its busiest day in history-although that number was since topped this past summer. So if you're one of those millions of travelers taking to the skies the last week of November, you can probably expect longer-than-average security lines, crowded gates, and busy pick-up areas.

Am I the only one wondering if Thanksgiving is going to be 2020 flavored? Will the TSA walk out on the job? Will PDX become a holiday romcom of strangers-connecting-that-normally-never-would-otherwise giddily bonding over their shared serendipitous misery, or will it be more of a Lynchian dystopia of infinity lines with nobody willing to hold your place when you inevitably have to use the bathroom? How long will they circle the tarmac? Pass the digital gravy, just two more weeks or something