Are American Airports Braced For The Holiday Rush?

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Wednesday before Thanksgiving has long been considered one of the busiest travel days of the year in the United States. The pandemic era stifled Americans from vacations and cross-country visits, yet today the travel volume projections suggest that this Thanksgiving week will demonstrate that travel has returned to pre-pandemic levels. Travel and small business analyst, Mark Murphy joins to discuss how remote work has transformed the traditional American travel habits around the holidays, how airlines have been preparing for a boom in travel, and how the easing of travel restrictions encouraged more Americans to plan trips this year. Later, he gives his insight on how to navigate the airport experience with less stress and explains when is the best time to book a flight. During the pandemic, America saw a massive uptick in the country's unemployment rate due to nationwide lockdowns and layoffs. Though the US recovered when most Americans returned to work this year, a record number of young men in what the Labor Department deems their 'prime working age,' between roughly 25 and 54, remain unemployed or have neglected to enter the workforce entirely. American Enterprise Institute Wendt Chair Nicholas Eberstadt tackles this complex topic in his new book ‘Men Without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition’. He joins the Rundown to discuss the key reasons young men are turning away from the workforce, how this has a negative impact on society, and what can be done to address what he calls a “Great-Depression-scale-problem." Plus, commentary by Fox and Friends Co-Host Steve Doocy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alex met Sam at nursery. They were first loves. They built forts together, shared sandwiches in high school and were each other's first kiss.
0:12.0	They were the dream couple until Sam got into EDM music.
0:18.0	While Alex enjoyed folk, first loves are kind of like your current account. If they aren't working for you anymore,
0:26.5	maybe it's time to switch with the current account switch service. I'm Shannon Bream. I'm Bill Hemmer. I'm Kennedy and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:34.5	Wednesday, November 23, 2022. I'm Dave Anthony. Millions of Americans are hitting the road for Thanksgiving and it's going to cost them.
0:48.5	Prices are through the rules. So yeah, travel has come back, but it's almost become a little out of reach for a lot of folks.
0:56.5	I'm Jessica Rosenthal. Where are all of the men? New data shows millions of able-bodied prime working age men are opting not to work. But why?
1:07.5	If you look at the actual work rates of prime men today, they are lower. And I repeat this, this is not a type of.
1:14.5	They are lower than they were in 1940 when we started tracking this thing at the end of the Great Depression.
1:20.5	Hi, I'm Steve Ducy and I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:28.5	It's getaway day across America. People hitting the road for Thanksgiving.
1:34.5	I feel like people are ready to travel and ready to see faces and ready to not worry about the extra policies and changes and just get back to normal, stressful travel.
1:47.5	The triple light predicts more than 54 million of us will travel. Most will drive, but not all.
1:54.5	It took the Amtrak all the way over here. It was pretty fun. It's the drive. It's the drive, the gas.
2:02.5	Regular gas has been getting cheaper lately, but at about 360 a gallon. It's the priciest at Thanksgiving on record flights will be crowded.
2:11.5	More passengers went through airport security Sunday than the Sunday before Thanksgiving in 2019.
2:18.5	And the TSA says yesterday had the most scheduled flights of any day this holiday travel period.
2:24.5	The airports are definitely a lot busier now. What with some of the restrictions being lifted, but it's definitely gotten a lot pricier, which makes sense.
2:31.5	Air fares are up 43% from a year ago from a standpoint of air travel.
2:37.5	We're almost at 2019 levels. So we have recovered quite a bit. We're not quite there yet.
2:44.5	Mark Murphy is a travel and media and small business analyst.
2:48.5	What I think is shocking to a lot of people, the recovery and prices, prices are through the roof.
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