Airlines expect record travel this Thanksgiving. Houston, Dallas among possible trouble spots

Thanksgiving is a busy travel season, and that means large crowds in airports and potential service interruptions in the air if bad weather strikes at the wrong moment.

OAG, the airline and airport data behemoth, did some data crunching and came up with some revelations about Thanksgiving travel that could be useful.

First, OAG predicts this will be the busiest-ever Thanksgiving travel period, with 31.6 million travelers expected to board U.S.-based carriers over the 12-day travel period that brackets…