What to expect from Memorial Day holiday travel

WBUR

Published May 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM EDT

With a lot of holiday air travel expected this weekend to mark the start of the usual summer travel season, host Asma Khalid checks in with Here & Now‘s transportation analyst Seth Kaplan about what challenges the airline industry faces this year, from falling passenger traffic, surging costs because of tariff uncertainty and concerning outages at some big airport hubs.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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