North Carolina’s Booze It & Lose It Kicks Off to Curb Impaired Driving

As we get closer and closer to the holidays, safety is becoming a main priority for the state. From Christmas drinking to New Year's parties, North Carolina is wanting all of its residents to remain smart and safe. The North Carolina statewide campaign, "Booze It & Lose It" is officially underway.

Spectrum Local News reports that law enforcement across North Carolina will increase patrols as part of the holiday campaign through January 2nd. The Booze It & Lose It campaign is the largest impaired driving effort run by the state. Talk about some great safety, right? “If you’re out celebrating this holiday season, make sure you have a sober ride home,” said Mark Ezzell, director of the NCGHSP to Spectrum Local News. So far in North Carolina, over 400 people have died as a result of drug or alcohol-related accidents. Let's take this time to be smart while we are out celebrating to allow everyone to be able to make it home safely. Check out a few of the safety tips given by N.C. Governor’s Highway Safety Program. 

Check out the full article here as you prepare for your holiday celebrations. Stay safe and happy holidays!

Are you traveling to or from the Carolinas this holiday season? If so you might be interested to know that a South Carolina airport ranks as having some of the highest numbers of canceled flights. This is among all US airports. The data comes to us from our friends at Insure My Trip. In order to help empower passengers to make more informed decisions when booking flights around the holidays their researchers analyzed the latest flight cancellation data* to reveal which airports are more prone to flight cancellations.

The last thing you want to start or end your vacation is a flight delay. Unless of course you're on a tropical island in denial that you have to return to everyday life. But since that's not typically the case, avoiding canceled flights is the standard we aim for. So to create this list Insure My Trip looked at the busiest U.S. airports with the most and least percentage of flights canceled. This list is based on newly released data, which includes January through August of 2022.

Rankings were based on the flight cancellation rate per airport. Airports on the list also reported 10,000 or more scheduled flights for 2022 (year to date). Sources include InsureMyTrip and The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). BTS tracks the on-time performance of domestic flights operated by large air carriers.

Keep reading to see which South Carolina airport ranked in the top 10 for canceled flights. You can read the full study by Insure My Trip here.

Location: New York, NY (Queens)

Score: 6.42%

Location: New York, NY (Newark, NJ)

Score: 6.36%

Location: Washington, DC

Score: 4.96%

Location: Buffalo, NY

Score: 4.75%

Location: New York, NY (Queens)

Score: 4.74%

Location: West Palm Beach, FL

Score: 4.46%

Location: Norfolk, VA

Score: 4.41%

Location: Boston, MA

Score: 4.27%

Location: Hartford, CT

Score: 4.10%

Location: Charleston, SC

Score: 3.99%

Location: Raleigh, NC

Score: 3.79%

Location: Charlotte, NC

Score: 3.42%

Location: Myrtle Beach, SC

Score: 2.57%