Gas prices are down, holiday travelers are up

“Auto travel volume tends to be evenly spread out over the five-day holiday, but airports are especially busy on Wednesday and Sunday”, she said.

Park Superintendent, Becky Bariola, said the 60-room Lodge at Mount Magazine State Park and the 13 guest cabins are completely booked for the four-day holiday weekend that begins tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day.

With the state’s lowest Thanksgiving gas price since 2008, many are taking to the roadways instead of the airways.

“The law is explicit”, the CHP said in a statement.

Travelers will find welcome relief at the gas pumps as prices have been dropping over the past week just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday season and it’s a drop of 70 cents or even more in some places compared to previous year at this time.

A spokesperson for Will Rogers World Airport says, before you arrive, do your own baggage screening.

The national average is about $2.07, but you may see lower prices on your travels, AAA reported. “Of course I stopped in Hattiesburg to get some because I know in Florida it’s going to be higher”.

“As we travel in larger groups of family and friends, make sure every passenger has a seat belt or a properly fitted vehicle seat”, said Kate Carr, president and CEO of Safe Kids Worldwide, in a statement.

“Wherever you can save a penny it helps”, he said. “I will definitely fill up here on the way back”, Pine said. Nationwide 46.9 million people will be traveling, a slight increase of 0.6 percent over past year. The Colorado-based business information provider teamed with AAA in 2009 to jointly analyze travel trends during major holidays. The idea of potentially sitting in lots of traffic doesn’t scare away some drivers.

“I-10 from Baton Rouge over to Slidell was real heavy, but once I got on 59 coming up to Hattiesburg, it backed off a little bit”.

Officials at SFO are expecting 144,000 passengers in and out of the airport Wednesday and hope to ease passengers’ time at the airport with live music, SFO spokesman Doug Yakel said. AAA says only 1.4 million will take trips by bus, train or cruise ship.