The 2021 holiday season might see more travelers than last year if the new COVID-19 Omicron variant doesn’t sway people to cancel their plans.
"We believe our prediction will be close to holding, but it may end up being slightly less due to the recent COVID-19 surges," Jones told Fox News."For example, we said 33 million will fly for Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa, which includes the days before and days after. Today [Dec. 20], the TSA said it expects to screen ‘nearly 30M individuals from TODAY through JAN 3,’ which is not far off from our estimate.
Jones continued: Overall, we still expect well over 100 million Americans to travel over the Christmas holiday week, but the figure may be closer to 115 million than the predicted 122 million. Ultimately, Delta/Omicron will deter some people, but most will still keep their initial travel plans." In terms of how far Americans plan to travel for the December holiday season, more than a third said they’re traveling between one and 99 miles. Nearly one in five said they’re traveling between 100 and 499 miles. Nearly 8% said they’re traveling between 500 and 999 miles or more than 1,000 miles.
Forty percent of these holiday travelers expect to spend $500 or less on gas, flights, hotels, tickets and other festive events. One in 10 expect to spend between $501 and $1,000 while 12.26% expect to spend upwards of $1,001 on holiday travel.
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