Thanksgiving is on Thursday (November 23, 2023) in the United States, a day when many Americans hug their families, express gratitude, and gather around the table for a celebratory turkey dinner to commemorate the holiday.
Many people use “ to get to family or celebratory destinations during peak seasonal travel times.airplanes, trains, carsBut not necessarily in that order, all at once, or, as in the plot of the comedy film of the same name, masterfully written, produced and directed by the late filmmaker John Hughes, with hilarious, unbelievable and tragic consequences. That doesn’t mean it will happen.
Undoubtedly, the strong desire to be with family and loved ones on Thanksgiving is just as strong as the need to have a thorough and affordable plan to reach your destination with minimal stress. Often it’s wishful thinking. Weather, transportation delays, flight cancellations, traffic jams, and many other things can get in your way.
Hughes’ film and cast encapsulate this brilliantly, making it enjoyable for viewers. airplanes, trains, cars This movie was released in 1987 and has been something of a Thanksgiving tradition ever since. If you haven’t seen this movie (yet), the correspondent has nothing to say that would strongly recommend you to watch it.
The story revolves around the vacation misadventures of Neil Page (played by Steve Martin) and Del Griffiths (played by the late John Candy). Neil, a high-flying advertising executive, needs to get home for his family’s Thanksgiving dinner, and Del, a talkative, kind-hearted, but often annoying shower curtain ring salesman, makes an involuntary trip. We become friends.
The High Flyer and the Salesman”You’re still one million dollars away from becoming a millionaire.Later, a flight from New York to Chicago is diverted to Wichita due to a snowstorm in Illinois, and they embark on a strange three-day journey to get Neil home.
What follows is full of heart, humor, mood swings, human imperfection, and, yes, love, about navigating an important but difficult journey and the people within it. Every year, when networks, newspapers and websites are flooded with articles about travel and Thanksgiving, we all need a lot of it.
And with the 2023 season underway, Americans may be in for the cheapest Thanksgiving since the 2020 coronavirus pandemic when it comes to transportation.
Let’s talk planes – trawls through Hopper, Kayak, and Expedia (US) show that international airfares to and from the US appear to be going up slightly by 1-2%, but for this week’s trip October Domestic flights booked for Thanksgiving in the early months were down an average of 1% to 2%. 8.5% compared to the previous year. NerdWallet discovered deeper discount rates from a much wider pool of research data than my cursory attempts. All the added domestic capacity appears to be paying off.
So we hope you’re blessed with great perks to get you where you want to go and a passenger who doesn’t joke with Dell.It’s $6, but they say it won’t land in Chicago.“If you run into a weather system, especially if you go to Chicago.
When switching to trains, Amtrak offered strange flash sales across its network. There’s also some first class, especially on the “Auto Train,” where you can park your car on the train and hop into a comfortable seat between Florida and Washington, D.C. There’s no need to go along with Dell’s emotions at the end of a difficult situation because the deal is also at hand. ”Let’s go first class next time.”
And finally there are cars, and there’s good news there too. The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was approximately $3.31 as of Monday (Nov. 20, 2023), according to the American Automobile Association (AAA). That’s 25 cents lower than a month ago and 36 cents lower than the average price for the same period in 2022.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration, in a sample of regular gasoline prices at the pump, found that the average price for the week ending Nov. 20 was $3.29 per gallon. It was down 6 cents compared to the previous week and down 36 cents compared to the price recorded in the same week last year.
And if you’re concerned about short-term trends, fuel prices have fallen for nine straight weeks, the longest downward trend since the first half of 2022, according to my energy industry colleague and GasBuddy analyst Patrick de Haan. It is said that it has been corrected.
AAA also estimates that 55.4 million travelers will head more than 80 miles from home during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period from Nov. 22 to Nov. 26. This year’s Thanksgiving predictions are up 2.3% from last year, making him the third highest number among Thanksgiving predictions. Since AAA began tracking his vacation travel in 2000, his top two years were in 2005 and 2019, respectively.
“For many Americans, Thanksgiving and travel go hand in hand, with more people hitting the roads, skies, and seas this holiday than in 2022,” said Paula Tweedale, senior vice president of AAA Travel. It is expected that.” “Travel demand remains strong year-round, and AAA’s Thanksgiving forecast reflects the continued desire to spend time with loved ones far away.”
Well, I understand that, well known Paula. So I hope you at least have a car if you need it – not at all like Neil and Del in the photo above – it’s probably ‘It’s not very pretty… but it will take you where you want to go.“And whether you take a plane, train, or car, or simply walk a few miles to get where you want to go during the holidays, I wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving.
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