Return to Transcripts main page

CNN Live At Daybreak

Many of You Traveling Today Can Expect Some Delays on Roads and in Skies

Aired November 27, 2002 - 06:24   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Well, many of you traveling today can expect some delays on the roads and in the skies.
Joining us from Washington now to talk more about travel tips, Justin McNaull of AAA.

Good morning to you.

Thanks for getting up early with us.

JUSTIN MCNAULL, AAA: Well, good morning.

CALLAWAY: Good morning.

We just talked with Maria Hinojosa, standing by at LaGuardia, and the airport there is just packed. A lot of people flying this holiday.

MCNAULL: It is. We're projecting about a six percent increase compared to last Thanksgiving. And a lot of that is because people are getting confident in the air travel system. They see the TSA, the federal security folks, there, and they feel good about things.

CALLAWAY: Yes, what about the price of gasoline? Is that going to affect people? Because I know a lot of people are going to be driving this holiday.

MCNAULL: Well, compared to last Thanksgiving, we're up about $0.25 a gallon, which seems like a big jump. But what it really makes you realize is just what bargain gas we got last Thanksgiving. Prices averaged $0.95 a gallon in Atlanta, $0.99 in Roanoke, Virginia. So we had some real cheap gas last year. This year we're up $0.25 or $0.30, but that's not going to keep people off the roads.

CALLAWAY: No.

MCNAULL: You still need to go see grandma.

CALLAWAY: Yes, everybody wants to go home.

Tell me about some of the best tips you have for everybody out there. You're AAA, come on, you've got to have great ideas.

MCNAULL: Leave early. It's the very basic one. Leave early, stay late so you can avoid those peak travel periods. Every Thanksgiving weather seems to be an issue in some part of the country. This year it's the Northeast. You might want to adjust your travel time so that you can hold off until the sun's had a chance to come up and melt some of the snow and until the highway crews have had a chance to do their magic on it. If you need to get out there in the thick of it, give yourself plenty of time so that you won't feel rushed, so that you'll take frequent breaks, so that you won't speed. Grandma doesn't want you to get injured on the way. Grandma wants you to get there to eat some of her pie.

CALLAWAY: Hey, is today or is Sunday going to be the worst day? It seems like everybody will be rushing to get back on Sunday.

MCNAULL: Today really is the most intense travel day, just because so many people do have to work or send the kids to school today, that most people do end up on the road this afternoon or this evening.

CALLAWAY: Yes.

MCNAULL: But Sunday can be a pretty gruesome day, too, because you do get people who are trying to get to football games and doing all the other parts of life in addition to holiday traveling.

CALLAWAY: Now, today's also a bad day to go to the grocery store.

MCNAULL: Yes, it can be.

CALLAWAY: All right, Justin, have a good Thanksgiving.

MCNAULL: Thanks. You, too.

CALLAWAY: Bye-bye.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com






Roads and in Skies>


Aired November 27, 2002 - 06:24   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: Well, many of you traveling today can expect some delays on the roads and in the skies.
Joining us from Washington now to talk more about travel tips, Justin McNaull of AAA.

Good morning to you.

Thanks for getting up early with us.

JUSTIN MCNAULL, AAA: Well, good morning.

CALLAWAY: Good morning.

We just talked with Maria Hinojosa, standing by at LaGuardia, and the airport there is just packed. A lot of people flying this holiday.

MCNAULL: It is. We're projecting about a six percent increase compared to last Thanksgiving. And a lot of that is because people are getting confident in the air travel system. They see the TSA, the federal security folks, there, and they feel good about things.

CALLAWAY: Yes, what about the price of gasoline? Is that going to affect people? Because I know a lot of people are going to be driving this holiday.

MCNAULL: Well, compared to last Thanksgiving, we're up about $0.25 a gallon, which seems like a big jump. But what it really makes you realize is just what bargain gas we got last Thanksgiving. Prices averaged $0.95 a gallon in Atlanta, $0.99 in Roanoke, Virginia. So we had some real cheap gas last year. This year we're up $0.25 or $0.30, but that's not going to keep people off the roads.

CALLAWAY: No.

MCNAULL: You still need to go see grandma.

CALLAWAY: Yes, everybody wants to go home.

Tell me about some of the best tips you have for everybody out there. You're AAA, come on, you've got to have great ideas.

MCNAULL: Leave early. It's the very basic one. Leave early, stay late so you can avoid those peak travel periods. Every Thanksgiving weather seems to be an issue in some part of the country. This year it's the Northeast. You might want to adjust your travel time so that you can hold off until the sun's had a chance to come up and melt some of the snow and until the highway crews have had a chance to do their magic on it. If you need to get out there in the thick of it, give yourself plenty of time so that you won't feel rushed, so that you'll take frequent breaks, so that you won't speed. Grandma doesn't want you to get injured on the way. Grandma wants you to get there to eat some of her pie.

CALLAWAY: Hey, is today or is Sunday going to be the worst day? It seems like everybody will be rushing to get back on Sunday.

MCNAULL: Today really is the most intense travel day, just because so many people do have to work or send the kids to school today, that most people do end up on the road this afternoon or this evening.

CALLAWAY: Yes.

MCNAULL: But Sunday can be a pretty gruesome day, too, because you do get people who are trying to get to football games and doing all the other parts of life in addition to holiday traveling.

CALLAWAY: Now, today's also a bad day to go to the grocery store.

MCNAULL: Yes, it can be.

CALLAWAY: All right, Justin, have a good Thanksgiving.

MCNAULL: Thanks. You, too.

CALLAWAY: Bye-bye.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com






Roads and in Skies>