Relax: 3 Thanksgiving Travel Myths

It's not as busy as you think
By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 24, 2010 1:26 PM CST
Relax: 3 Thanksgiving Travel Myths
Traffic might not be as bad as you think.   (Shutterstock)

If you’re traveling this Thanksgiving, you’re likely bracing yourself for major delays on the road, rails, or in the sky. But take courage: your worries may be unfounded—or at least exaggerated. NPR provides some turkey-related travel myths:

  1. It’s the busiest time of year to travel. “Actually, the summertime is worse. There are about five to 10 days during the summer that are busier than Thanksgiving,” says a spokesman from AAA.

  1. Gas prices shoot up for Thanksgiving. “It's typically the lowest price of the year,” notes the same rep, though this year is an exception because of a spike in oil. Generally, summertime demand pushes up the price.
  2. Thanksgiving is riddled with flight delays. For seven of the past nine years, flights’ “on-time performance” was better in the 12 days around the holiday than at any other point in the year, says a spokesman for the Transportation Department.
(More traffic stories.)

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