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"A survey released Tuesday by the travel website Orbitz ranks Sacramento International as the fourth-least busy airport for Thanksgiving.Photos: Least busy U.S. airports\"Oh, that's excellent,\" said Sybil Cano, who was traveling with her family to New York. \"I'm glad we're here and not somewhere else, like Chicago.\"Chicago's O'Hare Airport is the nation's busiest airport this week, according to the Orbitz survey, which was based on flight bookings.Los Angeles International ranked as the second-busiest airport, while San Francisco International came in third.By contrast, Buffalo Niagara International was rated the least-busy airport, while Jacksonville and Nashville came in second and third, respectively.Sacramento was No. 4 in the Orbitz survey for the least-busy airports.\"It is surprising,\" said Cara Crocker, who was on her way to visit family in Connecticut.Crocker was happy to have thinner lines at Sacramento International.\"With a 3-year-old, that's really nice,\" Crocker said. \"It makes it less stressful.\"Other passengers agreed.\"We were expecting huge crowds,\" said Therese Chaplin, who was flying to San Diego with her family.\"It's pretty nice. Smooth sailing today,\" Chaplin told KCRA 3.But airport officials were quick to cry foul.\"The Orbitz data does not include Southwest Airlines, because you can't buy a Southwest ticket anywhere except on a Southwest website or by phone,\" said Karen Doron, a spokesperson for Sacramento International Airport.\"Southwest is more than 50 percent of the traffic here at Sacramento International Airport, so that data is skewed,\" Doron said.Orbitz did not immediately respond to several requests for comment from KCRA 3.While airport officials were defending the $1 billion airport expansion project, passengers were not complaining about the lack of lines.\"It's a breeze,\" said Bernadette Nieto, who was on her way to San Diego. \"I expected it to be extra busy, so we got here extra early and it's a ghost town. But we're happy about that because it's less stressful.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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