WSJ: With kids scheduled for shots, holiday travel by air likely to increase
Nov 4, 2021, 9:26 am
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WSJ: With kids scheduled for shots, holiday travel by air likely to increase
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With kids as young as 5 now approved for a Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, one of the final factors holding back the rebound of the travel and aviation sector will soon fall away for many parents. According to the most recent U.S. Family Travel Survey, 44 percent of respondents took a trip in 2020, which was far less than the 70 percent of families in 2019, and 36 percent of them chose a destination they could drive to rather than braving the skies. With kids scheduled for shots, holiday travel by air and cross-country trips will be back on the menu, and providers are excited. Never thought I’d see the day when a kid having a meltdown on a plane is downright music to my ears, but here we are.Allison Pohle, The Wall Street Journal
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With kids as young as 5 now approved for a Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, one of the final factors holding back the rebound of the travel and aviation sector will soon fall away for many parents. According to the most recent U.S. Family Travel Survey, 44 percent of respondents took a trip in 2020, which was far less than the 70 percent of families in 2019, and 36 percent of them chose a destination they could drive to rather than braving the skies. With kids scheduled for shots, holiday travel by air and cross-country trips will be back on the menu, and providers are excited. Never thought I’d see the day when a kid having a meltdown on a plane is downright music to my ears, but here we are.Allison Pohle, The Wall Street Journal
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Nov 22, 2021, 8:11 am
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I don't see us flying anywhere for a while yet. I will travel by air for work in January, but with my job change I'll go from 20+ flights a year to maybe 4
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Given:
(a) Thanksgiving break-related flights were more (and more expensively) packed than usual before the pandemic; and
(b) the upper 25% filling those pre-pandemic Thanksgiving flights have substantially more wealth now than in 2019; and
(c) dual-income married couples have more wealth per person than the average household
perhaps the limit on family travel numbers is more a function of flight capacity and how much of that capacity is being taken up by SINKs and DINKs than desire to fly as if it were 2019.
Last edited by GUWonder; Nov 23, 2021 at 12:03 pm