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Americans set out for Thanksgiving on the expected busiest travel weekend in 15 years

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published November 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM CST

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with transportation analyst Seth Kaplan about this year’s holiday travel, the day before Thanksgiving, and asks whether anything is different in 2025 in the aftermath of the longest government shutdown, which put a huge strain on air traffic controllers.

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