The industry trade group “Airlines for America” is predicting a 4% boost in labor day holiday travel via the skies.
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If you’re hitting the skies for Labor Day weekend, you can expect to see more travelers in the air than during the same time period past year.
That’s about 2.2 million passengers a day on average.
To accomodate the spike in travel, Medina says airlines will expand their schedules and seat availability.
“We think we’re in a good place, but we are remaining vigilant”, said John Heimlich, chief economist at Airlines for America.
According to the trade group, September 2 and September 1 are expected to be the busiest days during the seven-day holiday travel period. Over the first half of 2016, which doesn’t include the recent outages, airlines canceled only 1 percent of flights and arrived on-schedule 82 percent of the time.
Many airlines, benefiting from lower fuel prices, have been reporting strong profits and are investing heavily in upgrading their fleets and products.
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A4A says fares dropped 5.2 percent in 2015, and have slipped another 6 percent so far this year.
