World Tourism Day Celebration
If you’re looking to travel this Labor Day weekend (and let’s be honest, who isn’t?), you may be in for a surprise when you hit airport security and baggage check lines. According to industry analysts, an expected 2 million passengers per day will fly between Wednesday September 2nd and Tuesday September 8th. If you traveled last year around the same time, experts say to expect even heavier traffic this year. Apparently, travel this year will see a 3% increase over the same time last year, which means about an extra 60,000 passengers per day using airline services.
An official report was released on Tuesday by Airlines for America, an industry group that keeps track of relevant industry load, year to year changes, and other data. Of course, this won’t come as a surprise to anyone keeping an eye on the state of the travel industry this past summer, which was the busiest summer in the history of US air travel with some 220 million+ passengers predicted to have flown between June and September.
Of course, this increased load meant that airlines were going to have to adjust things in order to accommodate demand. Modified schedules with increased flight frequencies and altered routes were planned out in advance.
