{"id":98880885,"date":"2011-11-17T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/aaa-42-5-million-americans-traveling-for-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T11:52:08","slug":"aaa-42-5-million-americans-traveling-for-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/aaa-42-5-million-americans-traveling-for-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"AAA: 42.5 Million Americans Traveling for Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>42.5 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more during the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/flights\/thanksgiving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thanksgiving holiday<\/a>, according to a report from AAA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The figure marks a four percent increase over 2010. Thanksgiving will be the first major travel holiday to see a significant increase in 2011 traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/flights\/memorial-day\">Memorial Day<\/a>, Labor Day, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/flights\/independence-day\">Independence Day<\/a> all proved to be stagnant numbers-wise in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3.4 million leisure travelers are expected to hit the skies next week with an estimated 38.2 million making the drive to their Turkey Day destination.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/aaa-chicago-425-million-americans-will-travel-this-thanksgiving-four-percent-more-than-last-year-134034988.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PRNewswire<br \/>\n<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>CC Flickr photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lunchtimemama\/110765169\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lunchtimemama<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>42.5 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more during the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, according to a report from AAA. &nbsp; The figure marks a four percent increase over 2010. Thanksgiving will be the first major travel holiday to see a significant increase in 2011 traffic. &nbsp; Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Independence Day all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98880885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98880885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98918744,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98880885\/revisions\/98918744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98880885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98880885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98880885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}