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Source for Photo: FILE – A passenger uses a laptop aboard a commercial airline flight from Boston to Atlanta on July 1, 2017. Concern about new high-speed wireless service interfering with airplanes appears to be easing. Federal safety regulators said Friday, Jan. 28, 2022 they have cleared the way for Verizon and AT&T to turn on more 5G towers. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

According to a release from Jim Garrity, Director of Public Affairs for AAA East Central this week, almost eighty million Americans will be traveling the week of and starting the week after Thanksgiving. An estimate by AAA of travelers that are going greater than or equal to fifty miles away from home, according to Garrity is 79.9 million people. The number from the previous year went up by 1.7 million, while back in 2019, the present total was two million more. According to INRIX, which investigates data in transportation, notes that Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon are the worst days to travel over Thanksgiving, and compared to last year, Gerrity asserts that gas prices went down, and on Thanksgiving Day, an average of $3.26 was calculated nationally.