Consumers are more eager to shop than they were last year, and have less time to do it. jbarro writes
Photo: Scott Barbour/Getty Images I’m throwing a Christmas party on December 14, and as a result, I can’t go to the four other Christmas parties I was invited to on December 14. I announce this as a demonstration not of my popularity but of this year’s unusually cramped holiday calendar. Everyone wants to have a party on the 14th because it’s the only good holiday-party Saturday on this year’s calendar.
Indeed, it won’t. According to Booking Holdings, which owns the Kayak flight-search engine, this year’s busiest outbound holiday air travel day is set to be Saturday, December 21; the second-busiest will be Friday, the 20th. The busiest date for return flights is set to be Saturday, January 4, also according to Kayak data.
United Airlines says it expects its least busy outbound holiday travel days, with the lowest fares, to be Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, with New Year’s Eve being the least busy day to return. So you might consider flying on December 31 if that won’t result in you missing New Year festivities, or if you want an excuse to miss them.
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