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Associated Press - November 25, 2009 7:05 AM ET
CHICAGO (AP) - The Miles family took a train to an Omaha table for Thanksgiving dinner. Instead of booking plane tickets, they rode the rails for their 1,100-mile trip.
They paid $800 for the five roundtrip train tickets from their Syracuse, N.Y., home to Omaha, Neb., to see family. Airfare would have totaled more than $2,500.
With economic pressures still hitting household budgets, many Americans are forgoing air travel for the holiday and opting for cheaper alternatives. Others are staying home - partly to avoid traffic and airport lines, partly to save a buck.
Thanksgiving travel plummeted 25 percent between 2007 and 2008. And an AAA survey says the number traveling this year is likely to stay about the same, inching up about 1.4 percent.
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