The Transportation Security Administration, which screened nearly 3 million fliers on Sunday — breaking the record for a single day — expects to top itself again as millions of Americans travel for the Fourth of July. The peak day for holiday flights will be Friday, June 28, TSA“With summer vacations in full swing and the flexibility of remote work, more Americans are taking extended trips around Independence Day,” Paula Twidale, senior vice president of AAA Travel,in a news release.
AAA projects that Monday, July 1, will be the best day to hit the road, but opting for Tuesday night or before noon on Wednesday or the Fourth itself will help you beat some of the traffic, too., an analytics company that provides transportation data and insights, said the worst times to drive before and on the Fourth will be between 2 and 7 p.m., with congestion expected to be heaviest in the Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston and Philadelphia metro areas.
Las Vegas, New York, New Orleans, Orlando and Atlanta are the most popular hotel destinations for the Fourth, according to Priceline. But holiday-weekend travelers aren’t, in many cases, flying to those places to visit the cities themselves, and especially not their downtowns, noted Jan Freitag, national director of hospitality analytics for the CoStar Group.