US airlines expect record-breaking Thanksgiving travel season

Major US airlines expect the Thanksgiving holiday travel season to break records as airlines continue to deal with the fallout of the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max aircraft, A4A said Tuesday. The industry group said that it expects the Sunday after the national Thanksgiving holiday, Dec 1, to be the busiest day in US commercial aviation history, transporting a record 3.1m passengers on that single day alone. For the entire 12-day holiday period which it analyses, A4A expects airlines to transport a total of 31.6m passengers, up 2.7% from the same period a year ago. Load factors will be between 79% and 91%, the organisation adds. The holiday travel period as defined by A4A begins Friday, Nov 22 and ends Tuesday, Dec 3. <br/>