The Iran war has stopped feeling like breaking news and started feeling like the new normal. And the new normal, it turns out, is very expensive gas and jet fuel.
There are few things that seem to motivate government change more than meltdowns at the airports, and security lines at some of the nation's busiest hubs are still more than 3 hours.
Regular passengers — families, business travelers, people just trying to get home — are getting hit with fares that would make a first-class cabin blush.
I'm back from ITB Berlin, where the single most common question I fielded — in every variation imaginable — was some version of: What does it feel like to be an American right now? The world is curious.
The industry executive who told me this is "a no-win situation" was not wrong. But I think it's more specific than that. It's a no-framework situation.
