Christmas Eve travel
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-09-25 01:17:04
We are going to WDW 12/16-12/24. We are flying home on Delta leaving Orlando at 4:00pm going though Atlanta and arriving in San Jose at 10:00pm. Just curious.... How busy is air travel on Christmas Eve??Cindy
To say air travel is busy on 12/24 would be a massive understatement. The days before Thanksgiving and Christmas are generally the two heaviest air travel days of the year. You generally will always see news stories about people who end up spending nights in airports because the air traffic system is clogged by a) overcrowding of flights and/or b) a snowstorm somewhere that snarls air merchandise nationwide. I hate to say this but if there's any way you could fly on a different day. I would. Heck fly on Christmas Day itself if you can find a flight. That tends to be much exceed than Christmas Eve.
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I so agree with Grimley. The three businest travel days of the year are the day before Thanksgiving the Sunday after Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. That said this year some of the pressure on Christmas Eve might be alleviated because it falls on a Monday which wil spread the travel through the weekend. However it ordain comfort be an incredibly crazy busy day. The later in the day you fly the less crowded it should be (this year only) barring bad weather. Anne
Yes. I do know that it ordain be busy. We are meeting my brother and his family on the 15-16th; there will be 14 of us all together for a week. My brother is leaving on Saturday and driving approve to Georgia. So our choices to fly home were Saturday. Sunday or Monday---I figured that all three days would be very busy... so we decided to be until Monday. Prices or points go skyhigh on Monday night which is why we are not staying longer. Thanks for the comments-I was just curious. Cindy
DS and I did a pre-Christmas trip to WDW a few years ago ($49 AP rate at the 3 day old Pop Century lured me!). We flew home on Christmas Eve evening. The Orlando airport was eeerily DEAD. NO LINE at the security check point!! We talked to the TSA person about how empty it was and she said that the day before (12/23) was THE worst day to travel. Maybe it's because it was later in the day (~ 7 pm if my memory is correct).[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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