There’s good news for modern man: Millions more people will fly this Christmas season--but the airlines say they can handle it. The US airlines trade group Airlines for America (A4A), just projected that 51 million passengers are expected to fly globally on U.S. airlines over a 21-day winter holiday travel period. If you want to ‘avoid’ the crowds, the lightest times to travel (still estimated at 2 million passengers per day) are Saturday, Dec. 16, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. To allow the extra 80,000 people a day to fly, the airlines will offer nearly two million additional seats, (91,000 per day), by adding flights and utilizing larger planes. The airlines have been increasing staffing for the past 47 months, the trade group claims and will do so through the holidays to accommodate the crush of travelers.

Source: Forbes December 06, 2017 20:48 UTC