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Memorial Day road trips driven by fee fatigue

Barbara Powell

Skift Take

Are travelers getting used to airline fees, or is fee fatigue spurring more road trips? The slightly higher number of travelers taking to the roads this Memorial Day weekend may also be driven by airline capacity cuts. At any rate, at some juncture there will be a tipping point where the airline fee frenzy becomes just too much and decisively changes traveler behavior.

The number of Americans driving during the Memorial Day holiday weekend will rise 0.3 percent from a year earlier to the highest level in eight years, according to a forecast by AAA. Approximately 31.2 million Americans plan to drive to their destinations, up from 31.1 million who drove last year, according to Heathrow, Florida-based AAA, the biggest U.S. motoring organization. The number of air travelers will

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