You're going to hate Thanksgiving air travel even more this year: Busier, fuller and more expensive


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Cutting on capacity and trying to increase yields have made the passenger experience lot worse, and this year we will see the full manifestation of that playing out during Thanksgiving week.
The recipe for Thanksgiving travel is likely to make travelers a little bitter this year. Americans can expect airports to be busier and planes to be fuller than ever, according to a forecast by the main trade association for U.S. airlines two weeks ahead of the holiday. And fares are already more expensive. Airlines for America expects