{"id":464853,"date":"2025-12-22T18:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/464853\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:04:13","slug":"what-to-know-about-christmas-new-years-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/464853\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Christmas, New Year\u2019s travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans are expected to hit the roads, rails and skies during what AAA is predicting will be the busiest year-end holiday travel period on record.<\/p>\n<p>The travel window runs from Saturday, Dec. 20 through Thursday, Jan. 1, with AAA predicting 122.4 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home \u2014 marking a 2.2% increase from last year\u2019s record of 119.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>The prediction includes 8.03 million domestic air travelers. This is the first time that AAA expects the number of flyers during the year-end holiday period to exceed 8 million.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nationwide, AAA is predicting 122.4 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has issued reminders to travelers to anticipate delays, especially as work on the $19 billion JFK Airport redevelopment continues<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>On the roads, AAA is expecting 109.5 million people to travel by car, representing a 2% increase from 2024<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Minimal traffic is expected on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AAA predicted the Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday before Christmas will be the busiest airport days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are expecting record travel \u2014 airports are going to be packed,\u201d said AAA spokesperson Aixa Diaz. \u201cSaturday and Sunday before Christmas will be very busy, also the Monday and Tuesday. Once you get to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, things slow down a bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has issued reminders to travelers to anticipate delays around Christmas, especially as work on the $19 billion John F. Kennedy International Airport redevelopment continues this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>The agency says anyone traveling to the airport by car should \u201cplan ahead for delays or reroutes due to detours or closures of parts of the airport roadway network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers are strongly advised to use mass transit to and from the airport, such as MTA New York City Transit subway or buses, or MTA Long Island Rail Road \u2014 with 20-minute trains from Grand Central Terminal or Penn Station to the AirTrain JFK station at Jamaica,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on the roads, AAA is expecting 109.5 million people to travel by car, representing a 2% increase from 2024. The agency noted that lower gas prices compared with last season could make road travel more appealing nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The worst times to drive during the holiday season, according to AAA and INRIX data, are expected to be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saturday, Dec. 20: 12 p.m. \u2013 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, Dec. 21: 1 p.m. \u2013 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Monday, Dec. 22: 1 p.m. \u2013 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, Dec. 23: 1 p.m. \u2013 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Friday, Dec. 26: 11 a.m. \u2013 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, Dec. 27: 11 a.m. \u2013 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, Dec. 28: 11 a.m. \u2013 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Monday, Dec. 29: 12 p.m. \u2013 8 p.m.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, Dec. 30: 12 p.m. \u2013 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Minimal traffic is expected on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day. AAA recommends traveling on the holiday itself to avoid heavy congestion.<\/p>\n<p>AAA also projects 4.9 million people will travel by bus, train or cruise, a 9% increase from last year and a 25% increase since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millions of Americans are expected to hit the roads, rails and skies during what AAA is predicting will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":403979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7448,23953,23599,405,403,50,5226,5225,77624,5228,5227,52,26304,522,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-464853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-app-traffic-transit","11":"tag-erica-brosnan","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-nnt","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-traffic-and-transit","22":"tag-transportation","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115764544740026552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}