Today's sky-high airfares are enough to make this grown woman cry. My family and I are planning to travel to Europe later this fall, and I've never experienced so much sticker shock for economy-fare flights. And this is after the airline industry received billions of dollars in government aid for pandemic relief. It's a privilege that we can afford the vacation after the peak of COVID-19, but I can see how traveling is simply cost-prohibitive for so many households today. According to the US Travel Price Index, airfare is up 28% compared with this time last year, and consumers are spending way more…
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