A record 107 million Americans will travel for the holidays — the majority of them by car. Automotive technicians at Greenville’s McKinley Tire are seeing their fair share of customers. “The last thing you want to do when traveling to see family is have a problem,” said Brian Cater, Manager at McKinley Tire. Same is true down the street at Southern…
American Airlines says only a few hundred of its late December flights remain without pilots scheduled to fly the plane. An airline spokesman said Thursday that pilots were picking up extra flights and the airline had more on-call pilots in December than during other months. The pilots’ union had said that more than 15,000 flights lacked a captain, co-pilot or…
Stable gasoline prices are expected to fuel a slight increase in long trips this Memorial Day weekend. The AAA auto club predicts that 39 million Americans will make a trip of at least 50 miles this weekend, up 2.7 percent from the same holiday last year. The nationwide average price for a gallon of regular on Friday was $2.37. That’s…
