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US Travel Association: travelers canceling flights due to airport security lines
Monday, 26 May, 2016
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The US Travel Association says many travelers will either delay or cancel their plans to travel by air this summer due to long Transportation Security Administration lines at airports.
US Travel polled 2,500 Americans and found 21.8% of those planning a trip between Memorial Day and Labor Day will cancel or delay their plans, or travel by other means such as by car.
Of those who will travel by air this summer, 60.3% will make sure they arrive earlier at the airport.
"To put these figures in perspective, the problems at TSA security lines are costing our economy almost a billion-and-a-half dollars in spending and more than 12,000 jobs every month," said US Travel Association CEO Roger Dow.
"We’re looking at convincing data that says hundreds of thousands of people are potentially reconsidering whether to get on an airplane every single day. Given the importance of travel to both our economy and our way of life, it is not an overstatement to call that a national crisis in need of a national solution."
"Unfortunately we’re well past the point when any single measure is going to provide enough relief to completely save the summer travel season. The rosiest scenario we can hope for at this point is that policymakers sustain their level of attention on the TSA issue, and keep striving toward a wholesale policy shift," Dow added.
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