Another look at how the Web 2.0 captured holiday weekend travel traumas: flickr may have the Denver blizzard, but YouTube has footage of the fog that shut down Heathrow.

That’s right, in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, 65 million americans will be in the air or on the road. That’s almost double the number who traveled over Thanksgiving weekend, and an increase of one million from last year.

The business-traveler fantasy of the carry-on-only flight is no more. In response to Thursday’s news of the foiled plot to blow up trans-atlantic flights using liquid explosives, air travelers were greeted with an onslaught of new security restrictions.

Well, not exactly. The two branches of Yotel set to open in Heathrow and Gatwick late this year, and in the city proper in 2007, prefer to call their 10’x10’ rooms “cabins.�