Whether by plane, train, or bus, Thanksgiving weekend travelers returned to Greater Boston from destinations across the country and around the world today — in most cases, smoothly.
There were minor delays at South Station, where the 1:13 p.m. Acela Express arrived 65 minutes late and the 2:15 was nearly a half-hour behind schedule. Passengers said they took the minor inconvenience in stride.
“I’m used to it with Amtrak, because I’m from Connecticut,” said Somerville resident Devon Butler, 24, who spent the holiday with family in New London. “We were told it was an engine malfunction, but it turned out it was just a door jammed in New Haven.”
Travelers arriving at Logan International Airport reported trouble-free trips, even as one of the year’s biggest travel periods winds down.
Arlington resident Rusty McKinney, 33, said their fussy 15-month-old daughter provided the only difficulty on his and his girlfriend’s JetBlue flight from Charlotte, N.C., to Boston.
“No delays, no problems, everything was smooth sailing other than the baby crying,” McKinney said. “She was real sleepy.”
A spokesman for the Massachusetts Port Authority, which owns the airport, said Massport expects more than 100,000 travelers to pass through the airport today.
“I am not aware of any issues at this time,” Matthew Brelis, the spokesman, said in an e-mail at just past noon today.
Denali Schmidt, a 20-year-old film and animation student at the Rhode Island School of Design, had spent about 21 hours in the air, but she had no complaints.
“I just came from Capetown, South Africa, so I’ve been traveling all day,” she said.
Schmidt spent Thanksgiving break with a group of RISD students curating an exhibit at Capetown’s Slave Lodge museum and learning about South Africa’s apartheid past.
She said her flights from Capetown to Johannesburg and then to New York and Boston had all been trouble-free.
“It went really smoothly,” she said as she spied her boyfriend, looking dashing in a sport coat and tie as he arrived to drive her back to Providence.
After a long embrace, he told her he had brought wool socks to help ease her re-entry into late autumn in New England. “It’s summer right now in South Africa,” she explained.
