Americans are increasingly taking road trips amid an inflation- and tariff-related decline in consumer confidence. That’s according to a Monday (May 12) report from Bloomberg News, citing AAA figures showing that roughly 39 million Americans will drive this Memorial Day weekend. That’s a 3.1% gain from 2024...
Grasshopper Bank plans to acquire Auto Club Trust, a subsidiary of The Auto Club Group (ACG), saying it will become the exclusive bank powering depository and certain lending offerings to AAA members in ACG’s 14-state territory when the transaction is finalized. This is the plan...
Americans are projected to take a record number of road trips this Memorial Day weekend. It’s part of an overall uptick in early summer travel forecast by the American Automobile Association (AAA) in new data released Monday (May 13). “We haven’t seen Memorial Day weekend travel numbers like these...
A record number of Americans will fly this holiday season, despite rising travel costs. Roughly 7.5 million people will choose air travel to reach their holiday destinations, AAA reported Monday (Dec. 11) in its annual holiday travel survey. That figure surpasses the record set in 2019 of 7.3...
May 30, 2022
If you’re among the nearly 40 million Americans expected to have traveled over this holiday weekend, you paid more than you have in many years for everything — and it was worth it. As the holiday approached, AAA released its annual forecast on Memorial Day travel, estimating that 39.2 million people would travel at least 50 miles […]
July 03, 2020
Not planes. Not trains. Automobiles. The question becomes: What happens once we get where we are wheeling — amid the great summer trek of 2020? You may not be reading...
May 29, 2020
The first half of 2020 has been particularly grueling for the travel industry. Jeff Cavins, CEO of recreational-vehicle rental site Outdoorsy, likens it to the entire planet “getting hit by...
May 15, 2025
AAA Life Insurance Company, which is part of the American Automobile Association (AAA), will use One Inc’s PremiumPay solution as its primary platform for digital payment processing. PremiumPay will reduce paper billing; allow policyholders to make inbound premium payments through Venmo, PayPal and other direct payment models; and streamline AAA Life’s internal processing, the companies […]
May 12, 2025
Americans are increasingly taking road trips amid an inflation- and tariff-related decline in consumer confidence. That’s according to a Monday (May 12) report from Bloomberg News, citing AAA figures showing that roughly...
October 09, 2024
Grasshopper Bank plans to acquire Auto Club Trust, a subsidiary of The Auto Club Group (ACG), saying it will become the exclusive bank powering depository and certain lending offerings to...
May 13, 2024
Americans are projected to take a record number of road trips this Memorial Day weekend. It’s part of an overall uptick in early summer travel forecast by the American Automobile Association (AAA) in new...