Over 12 million travelers poured through American airports over the extended Christmas weekend, making it one of the busiest travel periods ever.
The high demand for holiday travel means snarled security checkpoints and long waits at baggage claim, but it also comes with higher prices: The average domestic airfare over Christmas exceeded $320 this year. That's actually quite a bit lower than last year, when average prices spiked to well over $400, in large part because "domestic airline capacity has come back to what we saw pre-pandemic, which means more planes flying than what we saw in past few years," a spokesman for travel-booking website Hopper told CBS News last month.
