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12-15-17 aaa predicting record holiday travel

todayDecember 15, 2017

Tis the season to spend with family and friends and this year Americans are traveling in record numbers.    State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmuscz says a new AAA survey shows this will be the highest year end travel volume on record and a 3.1 percent Increase compared with last year.  Jarmuscz says more than 107 million Americans are expected to celebrate the holidays away from home.  Two-point-two million Wisconsinites will travel 50 miles or more.  Jarmuscz says 90 percent of holiday travelers will find the most expensive year end gas prices since 2014.  Six-point-four million people, including 118,000 Wisconsin residents  will travel by air, a 4.1 percent increase.   The year-end  holiday period runs from Saturday December 23 through Monday January 1.

Written by: Radio Plus

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