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More than surveys Robert Cray Band half (51%) robert cray indicates of Americans say they find this aspect oftravel frustrating. However, that number is down a staggering 35 points sinceAugust of 2008, and 27 points from the same period in 2007. It appears that frustration with costs have been significantly diffused in thelast four months, perhaps because the price of oil is now a fraction of what itwas during the summer. In fact, just two in 10 Americans (22%) say that costissues, specifically gas prices (18%), are the most frustrating aspects oftraveling. Compared to December 2007, the proportion of Americans who saythey`re most frustrated with the price of gas is down six points and down 13points from August 2008. "The cost of travel, which is greatly impacted by the cost of oil and gas, hasbeen the major source of frustration for the last year," said Mark Cipolletti,vice president for marketing and communications at Access America.

"But now withcheap gas and airline tickets, consumer frustration has plummeted - so much infact that people don`t even appear to be upset about baggage fees and the lossof free in-flight amenities." Other aspects of travel that Americans are less frustrated with, compared to ayear ago, include airline/airport service (44%, down 10 points), the cost ofairline/cruise/train tickets (46%, down 3 points), the cost of lodging orattractions (41%, down 6 points), and homeland security and safety (35%, down 6points) robert cray band tickets . By creating an "index of frustration" among those who have traveled in the lastthree months, Ipsos and Access America have identified the aggregate level offrustration that exists among American travelers robert cray blues . The results have been tallied,and Americans are much less frustrated, overall, than they were a few months agowhen it comes to traveling robert cray guitar . The index currently registers at 42.6, which isdrastically lower than the frustration factor in August of this year (55.1) oreven at the end of last year (53.3) The index also allows for comparisons among various demographic groups:* Those living in the Northeast (44.6), South (43.6) and Midwest (42.5) are morefrustrated with traveling, overall, when compared to those living in the West(39) robert cray heavy picks . * Those with children (45.5) are considerably more frustrated with travelingthan are those without children (40.6). * Interestingly, those who are not married (46.0) are more frustrated by travelthan are married individuals (41.3). * The gap in frustration between business (41.2) and leisure (42.6) travelershas been closed.Comparing the different modes of traveling, it appears that the calculated levelof frustration is still higher when it comes to car travel (score of 44.3) thanwith air travel (score of 38.4).

Car travel appears to be particularlyfrustrating for those with children (48.8) than for those without (41.3) robert cray band live . Despite a drop in annoyance, fewer Americans report having traveled during thelast three months, compared to the same period of time in 2007 robert cray poor johnny . One in ten (10%)say they`ve traveled within the last week of taking the survey (down 4 pointsfrom a year ago), 8 percent have traveled two to three weeks ago (down 3points), 8 percent one month ago (down 2 points), and 11 percent two to threemonths ago (down 2 points) robert cray i wonder . About the survey:These are some of the findings of an Ipsos survey conducted December 4-21, 2008.For the survey, a nationally representative sample of 827 Americans who hadtravelled in the past three months was interviewed by telephone via Ipsos` U.S.Telephone Express omnibus robert cray live from across the pond . With a sample of this size, the results areconsidered accurate within ±3.41 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of whatthey would have been had the entire population of adults in the U.S beensurveyed. The margin of error will be larger within regions and for othersub-groupings of the survey population. These data were weighted to ensure thesample's regional and age/gender composition reflects that of the actual U.S.population according to data from the U.S Census Bureau.

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