Labor Day weekend travel
guys. Thank you. All right, 7.32, thank you so much. The last big getaway of summer is coming up. We’re talking about Labor Day weekend. That’s right. So international travel is booming, but it looks like most of the rest of us will be sticking pretty close to home. Sinclair from AAA, Northeast, it’s going put all into context and calm our nerves yet for good morning. yes to cool, but plan, right? Yes, yes. And very ports before we do hit the roads, tell us about the international travel. How big is it? One of had the the lockdowns
for a long time when international countries were preventing people from traveling. So all those have been lifted and people making up for most time on crazy. So overall, international travel is up. 44 1% people are going to London, Dublin, Rome, They’re also going to Vancouver, but for cruising and hotel bookings are up more than 80% overseas. it’s going to be very busy. Well, and that’s all before the the new rules take place. When you travel, you’re ever going to be that to wavered. Pay that extra fees. Okay. And this air port delays. They have enough
staffing. You they’ve been on a spree hiring. Air traffic controllers so it should be better but it should be. Yeah, traveling internationally, you’re flying. Get to airport 3 hours ahead of time. If you’re
be busy. 85 1% of the AAA northeast members that we surveyed are driving to their destination. Average distance is between 5200 of a low. Are we going years and never go in Jersey Shore we’re going sure we’re going to Florida. We’re going to theme parks. Okay. We’re going to big cities. All Vegas is very public. New York is a popular destination. So we have a lot of people leaving lot of people coming here. So imagine the traffic will be very bad, OK? So gas prices better or worse than last year better. But there’s still no
where 3.92 in New York City last year were 4.10. And last year we hit $5 a gallon guy member. Now we’ve done surveys with the pinpoint as for the price of gasoline, 40% said $3 a gallon in 2018, right during a better economy. Last year we revisited the survey and 60% said $4 a gallon. 75% and $5 a gallon. Is the pain point they have to cut back on driving. They would have to not out. Delay making a major push. point. feel like people just kind of suck it up and do it anyway because they
have no alternative. Well, that’s true. But I think what’s happening is that inflation is and we’re not doing a lot of non-essential driving overall this year. Demand for gasoline is about one percent less than last year when gasoline was a lot more expensive. I think that’s very, very telling rights over folks looking for an alternative from driving. And fly, want to get on a boat. How cruises look There was whole stream leave is not cruising. Domestically is up 19% compared to last year. And what’s really good about being in New York that we have a
home port. You can drive to Manhattan to Brooklyn from Bayonne and jumped right on the ship. What’s good about cruising to its its pay one price when you know inflation is bad, the way it if you’re driving to go in a restaurant and the family for you don’t know what you’re going to pay, but cruising you pay up front drinks are included. You know exactly what you’re going to pay. You know, in the restart. You’ve been on a couple but, you know, good kind of small it is it me or do they bring their prices
down since Coronavirus because people are like, I don’t want to be that confined space. There were a lot of discounts to be had. don’t know if that’s the case for him quote, cola, Tripoli travel agency will let you know, actually been a lot of people are going to Vancouver to take a cruise to Alaska. Anchorage is one of the most popular destinations people cruising to get to see the whales things. Yeah, before you leave, I’m curious, you know, with all the concerts going on tell if you have Beyonce has that kind of caused a spike
in people Well, I have seen stories about how the economy picks up happened then. Certainly the traffic picks up. it’s the traffic is bad all the time now. We’re still not riding mass transit to the level that we did before. And when we’re not doing that, what we do every I would do register. Couple weekends ago I sat and worse traffic on that Friday that I think 4th of July weekend. Crazy. Yeah. For the July was record all-time total number of travel is little no one’s going shore this
