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Busiest Travel Weekend In 13 Years Predicted
November 22, 2018
AAA projects 54.3 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more away from home this Thanksgiving, a 4.8 percent increase over last year.
The 2018 holiday weekend will see the highest Thanksgiving travel volume in more than a dozen years (since 2005), with 2.5 million more people taking to the nation’s roads, skies, rails and waterways compared with last year. For the 48.5 million Americans planning a Thanksgiving road trip, INRIX, a global mobility analytics company, predicts travel times in the most congested cities in the U.S. could be as much as four times longer than a normal trip.
The vast majority of travelers – 48.5 million – will hit the road this Thanksgiving, nearly 5 percent more than last year.
The average price of a gallon of gas Wednesday night in Escambia County was $2.57, higher than $2.38 on year ago but down about 20 cents from one month ago.
The Thanksgiving holiday period is defined as Wednesday, November 21 to Sunday, November 25.
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