The holiday travel period is slowly ramping up — and memories of last year’s weather-induced chaos are resurfacing.
It was almost exactly a year ago when the weather caused the Southwest Airlines system to collapse completely, stranding 2 million passengers. Last week, the airline paid a record-setting $140 million fine for those failings.
The same chaos is not expected this year, but that could change at any moment.
Seth Kaplan, Here & Now‘s transportation analyst, has been keeping an eye on how airlines, airports and the whole industry are preparing for this season’s travel. He joins Scott Tong.
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