Unlike Thanksgiving, which always falls on the fourth Thursday of November, the Christmas/New Year’s travel period, and the resulting travel pattern, varies depending on the day of the week on which the two holidays fall. In 2001, when Christmas and New Year’s Day fell on Tuesday, the Saturday and Sunday preceding Christmas and Christmas Day were generally the busiest travel days of the entire 17-day holiday travel period.So, the mad rush to get home to family when Christmas falls in the middle of the week happens on the weekend prior, or immediately after. This is a good thing to know for making those air travel plans.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Empty Airports on Christmas Eve?
After noticing the very light airport traffic on Christmas Eve while depositing the bro back to Chicago, and then searching Twitter to confirm other reports of empty airports, I did another search to see what statistics the Bureau of Transportation Statistics has collected regarding holiday travel. Here's a key quote very relevant to Christmas falling on a Tuesday:
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So that little mystery is solved. O'Hare was very dead when I got there at 9:30, and the cabbie that took me home said I was only his third fare of a 13 hour shift.
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