 247 airports are jam-packed at the beginning of the holiday travel season with millions of passengers expected to flood the airport. It's go time for millions of Americans taking off for the fourth with record-breaking numbers of people packing airports from coast to coast. It's looking like a record breaker on the roads too. AAA says some 60 million will take their vacations by car. The national average for a gallon of regular, 350. About the same as this time last year.