The White House in concert with Department of Transportation announced a temporary measure to ease aviation congestion for the busy travel week of Thanksgiving:

This year, the military is expanding "Thanksgiving Express Lanes" to areas of the Midwest, Southwest, and West Coast, including the skies over Phoenix and Los Angeles.  As they did last Thanksgiving, the Federal Aviation Administration and Department of Defense will make military airspace available for use by civilian airliners over the holiday season – but this year even more airspace will be open, and it will be available for a longer period of time.

Look as if for a brief moment, the airlines will get to enjoy the HOV lanes of the sky.