Thanksgiving Travel Rush Could Soon Happen Every Week at 30 U.S. Airports
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Congress is partly to blame for not approving more funding to build additional airports, but airports and airlines themselves also shoulder some responsibility, trying to pack as many flights into a day as possible. It's unclear when this congestion will be resolved, if ever.
Airports have enough trouble accommodating the flood of passengers hitting the skies during the Thanksgiving travel rush. Soon, this headache could become more than an annual occurrence: Some airports will face this every week.
The most alarming projection: in 2015 Chicago Midway and Las Vegas's McCarran International Airport will feel like the Wednesday before Thanksgiving every day.
Data from the U.S. Travel Association show what U.S. airports are on the path to longer lines and more frustrated travelers, and the findings come from 30 U.S. airports accounting for more than 70 percent of passenger plane boardings in
