AAA Texas: Record Holiday Travel Projected Despite Higher Fuel Prices.Business Editors/Travel Writers HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 17, 2000 Record travel is expected this Thanksgiving Thanksgiving annual U.S. holiday celebrating harvest and yearly blessings; originated with Pilgrims (1621). [Am. Culture: EB, IX: 922] See : America Thanksgiving national holiday with luxurious dinner as chief ritual. [Am. Pop. holiday despite soaring soaring: see flight; glider. soaring or gliding Sport of flying a glider or sailplane. The craft is towed behind a powered airplane to an altitude of about 2,000 ft (600 m) and then released. fuel prices. A record 38.9 million Americans plan a Thanksgiving holiday getaway of 100 miles or more from home, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. . It is a 4 percent increase over the 37.4 million people who took a trip last year. AAA estimates 31.6 million travelers will go by motor vehicle, a 5 percent rise from the 30.1 million who traveled last Thanksgiving. Another 7.3 million Americans will travel by airplane airplane, aeroplane, or aircraft, heavier-than-air vehicle, mechanically driven and fitted with fixed wings that support it in flight through the dynamic action of the air. , train or bus, the same total as last year. "Thanksgiving is a special time for most Americans and higher fuel costs are not going to discourage them from visiting family and friends or from taking advantage of using the four-day holiday to take a vacation VACATION. That period of time between the end of one term and beginning of another. During vacation, rules and orders are made in such cases as are urgent, by a judge at his chambers. ," said Rose Rougeau, a spokesperson for AAA Texas. The average cost of gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by is up more than 25 cents a gallon gallon: see English units of measurement. from a year ago and airfares have risen an average of 13 percent since last Thanksgiving. Ticket prices have been raised five times so far this year. AAA's holiday travel projections are based on a national survey of 1,300 adults by the Travel Industry Association, which conducts special research for AAA. Travelers plan on visiting the following destinations during the Thanksgiving holiday: town/rural areas, 40 percent; city, 34 percent; ocean/beach, 8 percent; mountain area, 6 percent; lake area, 5 percent; state/national park, 2 percent; theme/amusement park, 1 percent; and other or don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. , 4 percent.
AAA TEXAS FUEL GAUGE MONTHLY REPORT
AVERAGE PRICE OF SELF-SERVE REGULAR UNLEADED GASOLINE
IN SELECTED TEXAS CITIES
Metro State Nov. '00 Oct. '00 Sept. '00
-------------- ----- -------- -------- ---------
Abilene TX 1.423 1.430 1.508
Amarillo TX 1.493 1.453 1.491
Austin TX 1.399 1.417 1.446
Beaumont TX 1.403 1.384 1.457
Brownsville TX 1.396 1.352 1.450
Corpus Christi TX 1.398 1.363 1.405
Dallas TX 1.458 1.469 1.500
El Paso TX 1.383 1.406 1.450
Fort Worth TX 1.447 1.443 1.483
Houston TX 1.419 1.438 1.486
Laredo TX 1.468 1.481 1.497
Longview TX 1.430 1.391 1.493
Lubbock TX 1.520 1.489 1.506
Midland TX 1.499 1.495 1.556
Odessa TX 1.424 1.418 1.501
San Antonio TX 1.354 1.377 1.399
Waco TX 1.390 1.362 1.450
Average TX 1.4296 1.4216 1.3932
(Nov. 2000) (Nov. 1999)
----------- -----------
National Average Price $1.55 $1.28 up 27 cents
Survey Commissioned by AAA-Texas on November 17, 2000
|
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion