The flight tonight is oversold. I have to run to make sure I don't miss it.
First this: Janeen Mellick, the US Airways operations agent with the airline 23 years, says this holiday weekend is much lighter than usual.
Her theory: People don't want to spend both Christmas and Thanksgiving with the in-laws, and if they're going to make just one trip - they'll go for five days. So the airport was much busier over the weekend.
Note: "I have wonderful in-laws," she says.
The media, she thinks, has made holiday travel seem like such a nightmare that, "when things go smoothly, people are surprised and delighted.
Yep.
And on CNN - the holiday travel report has L.A. freeway traffic moving at 8 mph, and a 3 hour backup on the roads near Baltimore.
more tomorrow a.m.
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