{"id":20038,"date":"2011-06-22T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/aaa-more-americans-to-fly-this-fourth-of-july-despite-dip-in-overall-travel\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T13:05:00","slug":"aaa-more-americans-to-fly-this-fourth-of-july-despite-dip-in-overall-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/aaa-more-americans-to-fly-this-fourth-of-july-despite-dip-in-overall-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"AAA: More Americans to Fly This Fourth of July Despite Dip in Overall Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Overall, fewer Americans will travel this Independence Day weekend <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA new report from AAA suggests an overall dip in the number of Americans traveling over the Fourth of July weekend in 2011, despite a 9 point increase in the number of Americans who say they plan to fly to their holiday destination this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe conflict in data is due to a decreasing number of people who plan to drive over the holiday. Many Americans are still struggling to come to grips with soaring gas prices. On average, price for a gallon of gas remains $1 higher than a year ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOverall, AAA predicts that 39 million Americans will travel over 50 miles from home during the Independence Day weekend. That number is down slightly from 40 million in 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/43494975\/ns\/travel-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Overall, fewer Americans will travel this Independence Day weekend &nbsp; A new report from AAA suggests an overall dip in the number of Americans traveling over the Fourth of July weekend in 2011, despite a 9 point increase in the number of Americans who say they plan to fly to their holiday destination this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}