{"id":9714,"date":"2012-11-19T00:40:23","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T08:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2012-11-19T13:16:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T21:16:14","slug":"california-airports-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-airports-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"1.8 Million Thanksgiving Passengers at LAX, 1.2 Million at SFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/calarpt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Left photo- Los Angeles International Airport sign; right- San Francisco International Airport terminal<\/p>\n<p>Air travel is up slightly from last year during this Thanksgiving travel season.\u00a0 Sunday, November 25, 2012\u00a0 is expected to be the busiest day of the holiday travel period, with Monday, November 26 trailing slighly behind. If you&#8217;re looking to book or make changes to your flight, don&#8217;t be surprised to learn that domestic flights to popular destinations such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago and New York are 90 to 100% full!<\/p>\n<p><strong>General Travel Tips\u00a0 LOS ANGELES\u00a0 lawa.org\/lax<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Passengers departing during peak travel periods &#8211; 6 a.m. to 9 a.m.;\u00a0 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.\u00a0 should arrive in their airline\u2019s ticketing lobbies 2 hours before domestic flights and 3 hours before international flights. 24 new Chevrolet Caprice police cars have automated license plate recognition system, video camera systems and Rumbler devices to get attention of distracted motorists more quickly.<\/li>\n<li>Check in through airline Internet websites before coming to the airport,\u00a0 sign up to receive electronic alerts\u00a0 regarding flight status, and\u00a0 ensure any carry-on baggage complies with size and weight limitations at: lawa.org\/lax<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>GENERAL TRAVEL TIPS SAN FRANCISCO\u00a0 flysfo.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Capacity parking on Thanksgiving and the day after&#8211;take take alternate mode of transportation to and from the airport. When Long Term Parking reaches capacity, SFO will provide Valet Assisted parking for customers at the long-term daily parking rate of $18. Daily maximum parking rate at International Garages is $28, Domestic Garage is $36 per day. Use FasTrak lanes to enter and quickly exit SFO\u2019s parking garages.<\/li>\n<li>Free cell-phone parking lot adjacent to the Long Term Parking surface lot 5 minutes north of the terminals; Short-term parking offered at $2 per 20 minutes in hourly terminal garage; Kiss-and-Fly drop-off curb at the rental car facility where they can catch the AirTrain and be at the airport in minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left photo- Los Angeles International Airport sign; right- San Francisco International Airport terminal Air travel is up slightly from last year during this Thanksgiving travel season.\u00a0 Sunday, November 25, 2012\u00a0 is expected to be the busiest day of the holiday travel period, with Monday, November 26 trailing slighly behind. If you&#8217;re looking to book or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}