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CONSUMER ALERT: Is travel really back to normal?

With just a week to go before the holiday travel season starts, here’s where things stand

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Christopher Elliott
Nov 17, 2025
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If you’ve been holding off booking a trip because the skies—or rails or roads—felt too unpredictable, here’s your green light: Travel is back to normal. Mostly.

The travel industry got caught up in the political bickering earlier this month during the government shutdown. Now that the shutdown has ended, here’s where things stand:

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