Monday, November 22, 2010

Gobble Gobble, It's Time for Holiday Travel

Bookmark and Share By Meredith McKee, Senior Account Executive, Dallas

UPDATE: The original entry of this blog post ran on Monday, November 22 and follows below.  Following the Thanksgiving holiday, results from the annual Travelocity Thanksgiving Task Force include:

With hundreds of tweets from Travelocity and its spotters and more than 150 media interviews conducted by the Thanksgiving Task Force team, Travelocity was able to keep travelers informed of what was happening at the 12 airports where they were stationed and beyond. We hope you had good travels!


Are you boarding a plane next week? Our client, Travelocity, has a program that may help make the process a little easier.
The Tuesday and Wednesday before Thanksgiving are two of the busiest travel days of the year. The Air Transport Association is predicting that about one million more people will fly this Thanksgiving than last year. Once again Travelocity will help travelers navigate the airports with the 10th Annual Thanksgiving Task Force, stationing spotters at 12 airports across the country to update travelers via Twitter on security wait times, cancellations, delays, crowd conditions and even the occasional celebrity spotting.
Travelocity looks to you, a fellow traveler, to help provide updates as well. All you have to do is tweet your travel updates, including your location and the Twitter hashtag #TravelocityTTF on November 23 and 24, and you’ll be eligible for giveaways from the Travelocity Roaming Gnome.
To see the real-time status reports, flight tracking tools and holiday travel tips from Travelocity and other travelers from across the country, you can check in at Travelocity’s travel blog, The Window Seat or follow Travelocity airport spotters on Twitter from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on November 23 and 24 from the following airports:

• Atlanta Hartsfield (ATL) - @fly_from_ATL http://twitter.com/fly_from_ATL
• Charlotte Douglas (CLT) - @flyCLT http://www.twitter.com/flyCLT
• Chicago O’Hare (ORD) - @flyfromchicago http://www.twitter.com/flyfromchicago
• Dallas / Fort Worth International (DFW) - @flyfromdallas http://www.twitter.com/flyfromdallas
• Denver International (DEN) - @flyfromdenver http://www.twitter.com/flyfromdenver
• Las Vegas McCarran (LAS) - @flyfromvegas http://www.twitter.com/flyfromvegas
• Los Angeles International (LAX) - @flyfromla http://www.twitter.com/flyfromla
• New York La Guardia (LGA) - @flyfromnewyork http://www.twitter.com/flyfromnewyork
• Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX) - @flyfromphoenix http://www.twitter.com/flyfromphoenix
• San Francisco International (SFO) - @flyfromsf http://twitter.com/flyfromsf
• Tampa International (TPA) - @flyfromtampa http://www.twitter.com/flyfromtampa
• Washington Reagan (DCA) - @flyfromdc http://www.twitter.com/flyfromdc

Have a specific question about your Thanksgiving travel plans?

Travelocity will host a Twitterview on Monday, November 22 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. EST, where Contributing Editor Jennifer Gaines will be on hand to answer any and all of your Thanksgiving travel-related questions. Tweeps should direct their questions to @windowseatblog http://www.twitter.com/windowseatblog and include the Twitter hashtag #TravelocityTTF.


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