Air travel is soaring to pre-pandemic levels

Crowds return to airports for spring break travel, but will fuel prices impact airfares? And is it time to drop COVID travel restrictions?

By Andrea Guthmann
An American Airlines Boeing 777 prepares to land at Miami International Airport
An American Airlines Boeing 777 prepares to land at Miami International Airport, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Miami. The airline said Thursday that it lost $2.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020, with revenue plunging by nearly two-thirds from a year earlier. Wilfredo Lee / Associated Press
An American Airlines Boeing 777 prepares to land at Miami International Airport
An American Airlines Boeing 777 prepares to land at Miami International Airport, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Miami. The airline said Thursday that it lost $2.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020, with revenue plunging by nearly two-thirds from a year earlier. Wilfredo Lee / Associated Press

Air travel is soaring to pre-pandemic levels

Crowds return to airports for spring break travel, but will fuel prices impact airfares? And is it time to drop COVID travel restrictions?

By Andrea Guthmann
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Crowds are returning to airports for spring break travel, but will high fuel prices impact airfares? And is it time to drop the COVID travel restrictions?

Reset hears from two travel industry experts.

GUESTS: Elaine Glusac, ‘Frugal Traveler’ columnist for the New York Times

Joseph Schwieterman, director of DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development