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Journalist Considers Travel After The Pandemic

Lines of travelers snake past TSA agents at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last fall.
Elaine Thompson
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AP
Lines of travelers snake past TSA agents at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport last fall.

Travel will happen again, but it may take a while before people are willing to get into the middle seat on an airplane. The prospect of getting COVID-19 scared many people away from traveling even before shelter-in-place orders.

Sarah Khan, a journalist at Vox, recently took at look at the travel industry. She concluded that it is changed permanently by the pandemic.

Procedures, prices, and much more have changed and will stay changed... remember when you didn't have to take your shoes off to board a plane? Sarah Khan visits with some thoughts on the new realities in travel.

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