Travelers check in for a Southwest Airlines flight at Orlando International Airport ahead of the Fourth of July holiday. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Since the Fourth of July falls on a Monday, it becomes a three-day weekend for many.
With more than 47 million people hitting the road for some R&R for Independence Day, AAA expects 3.5 million people to fly to their vacation getaways.Air travel remains a go-to mode of transportation and AAA explains in its 2022 Independence Day travel forecast that flying to your destination will be pricey given the going rate even for cheap tickets, which on average this year is $201 per ticket."The volume of travelers we expect to see over Independence Day is a definite sign that summer travel is kicking into high gear," Paula Twidale, senior vice president, AAA Travel said in a statement. "Earlier this year, we started seeing the demand for travel increase and it’s not tapering off.
People are ready for a break and despite things costing more, they are finding ways to still take that much needed vacation."RELATED: Flight attendant bluntly shares travel tips: ‘We will not help you if you are mean’Air travelers not only face the burden of expensive flight costs but also delays and cancellations reported nationwide for weeks leading up to the Fourth of July Weekend.Flight Aware, a company that provides flight tracking data, reported Tuesday that over 17,000 flights have been delayed with more than 2,000 flights canceled in the United States.On Tuesday, the total number of delays for flights within, into, or out of the U.S.
topped more than 2,700, today alone along with over 600 flights within, into, or out of the nation canceled. RELATED: Airlines.