Airlines say they're ready for holiday season's busiest travel days

It’s crunch time for the peak holiday travel period for American Airlines and United Airlines. The massive effort to get travelers to their Christmas and New Year’s destinations makes for especially busy days at airports across the nation as traffic nears pre-pandemic levels for the region's two dominant airlines. “It’s a busy time,” said Eddie Gordon, United Airline's managing director at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. The Covid-19 variant Omicron, which health…