US: Thanksgiving air-travel rush gets off to a good start
Thanksgiving travellers got help from favourable weather in most of the US Tuesday, but flight delays piled up at airports around the country by day's end. Wet and frigid forecasts threaten to made driving more challenging in the next day or two. By late Tuesday afternoon, fewer than 150 US flights had been cancelled — a low number all things considered. But 3,000 flights were delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware. The largest number of delays — about 400 — was at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where dense fog slowed the pace of departures and arrivals. Flights going to Boston and Newark, New Jersey, were also more likely to be delayed, according to the FAA. So were flights to San Francisco, where visibility has been reduced due to smoke from the wildfire in Paradise, California. Looking at a longer, 12-day period, the airline industry trade group Airlines for America predicts that a record 30.6m people will fly on US carriers, up from 29m last year. That's more than 2.5m per day. The airline group expects that Wednesday will be the second busiest day of the holiday period behind only Sunday, when many travelers will be returning home.<br/>
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US: Thanksgiving air-travel rush gets off to a good start
Thanksgiving travellers got help from favourable weather in most of the US Tuesday, but flight delays piled up at airports around the country by day's end. Wet and frigid forecasts threaten to made driving more challenging in the next day or two. By late Tuesday afternoon, fewer than 150 US flights had been cancelled — a low number all things considered. But 3,000 flights were delayed, according to tracking service FlightAware. The largest number of delays — about 400 — was at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where dense fog slowed the pace of departures and arrivals. Flights going to Boston and Newark, New Jersey, were also more likely to be delayed, according to the FAA. So were flights to San Francisco, where visibility has been reduced due to smoke from the wildfire in Paradise, California. Looking at a longer, 12-day period, the airline industry trade group Airlines for America predicts that a record 30.6m people will fly on US carriers, up from 29m last year. That's more than 2.5m per day. The airline group expects that Wednesday will be the second busiest day of the holiday period behind only Sunday, when many travelers will be returning home.<br/>
