Despite calls from state and federal officials for folks to stay home for Christmas an estimated 81 million people still took to the roads, but AAA spokesperson Don Redman said road travel was down 24 percent from 2019’s record numbers.
Redman said millions of people in the southeast kept their Christmas travel plans.
“When we look at our region that includes Louisiana that includes almost nine million people traveling by car,” said Redman.
Redman said only three million Americans traveled by air for the holidays, a whopping 60 percent decrease from last year. Rail and cruise travel saw declines of 88 percent.
On the bright side, Redman said experts are growing confident that travel numbers will rebound in 2021 as COVID vaccines become more readily available.
“As the vaccine starts getting around and as confidence picks up it could be a brighter year for 2021 but it is still kind of early to kind of tell exactly what kind of direction we will be going in,” said Redman.
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