(22 Dec 2024)
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Chicago – 22 December 2024
1. Various of travelers at O’Hare International Airport
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Hayley Han, holiday traveler:
"Now that we’re at the airport, I feel like I can relax. It was a little bit of a hassle to get packed and ready. But there’s also a magic about the holidays that makes it exciting to travel."
3. Various of travelers at O’Hare
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hayley Han, holiday traveler:
"This year we had a list of who to buy presents for, and I tried to get them done mostly before this week. This week was mostly packing and getting ready to travel."
5. Various of travelers
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Hayley Han, holiday traveler:
"Our family is doing Secret Santa this year, so we were assigned different family members to get gifts for. I got some tea for one of my sister-in-laws. We also have a golf experience for my father-in-law. Some of the gifts are big and some of them are small."
7. Various of travelers at O’Hare
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Han, holiday traveler:
"It was the timings that worked out. So this close to the holidays is fine for us. It doesn’t seem as busy as I expected, I think."
9. Travelers at O’Hare
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Philip Han, holiday traveler:
"We’re flying to Dubai. We’ll be connecting through Miami, and we’re visiting with family."
11. Various of travelers
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sean Teare, holiday traveler:
"You know, I travel at this busy time of year so I can get home to see family for the holidays. The airport has been fine so far today. It doesn’t seem too, too hectic."
13. Family at baggage counter
STORYLINE:
Drivers and airline passengers without reindeer and sleighs better make a dash for it: it’s beginning to look like another record for holiday travel in the U.S.
The auto club AAA predicts that more than 119 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home between Saturday and New Year’s Day.
The two weekends on either side of Christmas are tempting a lot of people to head out earlier.
Even though fares were up 4.7% in November, compared with a year earlier, U.S. airlines expect to have their busiest days to be Friday and Sunday this week and next Thursday, Friday and Sunday.
The Transportation Security Administration expects to screen 40 million passengers over the holidays and through January 2.
Hayley Han and her husband Philip were traveling from Chicago through Miami en route to spend the holidays with Philip’s family in Dubai.
"Now that we’re at the airport, I feel like I can relax. It was a little bit of a hassle to get packed and ready. But there’s also a magic about the holidays that makes it exciting to travel, says Han.
AP video shot by Teresa Crawford
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