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It's Marielle.
We are coming up on the Super Bowl of travel in the US,
the moment when millions of people drag themselves to the airport so they can eat soggy airport sandwiches and pack,
like sardines, into metal tubes that shuttle them through the sky to their destination,
all in the name of seeing friends and family.
Scott Kays says he understands why people travel at Thanksgiving in the December holidays.
But from a travel perspective,
it's one of the worst times to travel from disruptions to crowds to the price of the flights.
My secret best advice for travel over the holidays is if at all possible, just don't do it.
Scott, by the way, is the founder and chief flight expert at going.com,
formerly known as Scott's Cheap Flights.
He says, if you can wait and travel in January,
you will probably have a much better travel experience.
My favorite date of the entire year is around January 8th.
I circle that date on the calendar because,
whereas flight prices really get inflated over the Christmas New Year period,
around January 8th,
they just fall off a cliff from the most expensive time of the entire year to the absolute cheapest.