Airlines Bracing for the Good, Bad and Ugly of Holiday Travel
RICH THOMASELLI | TravelPulse.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Travel Airlines can’t stand storms of any kind. High winds, rain, snow, ice – it wreaks havoc on flight schedules. But despite great optimism that air travel over the holidays could be as brisk as ever, there is a looming perfect storm that could disrupt the lucrative six-week period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. “It’s going to be messy, to say the least,” Helane Becker, senior research analyst at Cowen and Co. and one of the most respected airline analysts in the world, said on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” program. Airlines are…
