While the cost of oil has been steadily dropping, domestic airline ticket prices have actually been climbing in 2016. NPR’s Marilyn Geewax talks with Here & Now’s Robin Young about why costs are up and what consumers are trying to do about it.
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- Marilyn Geewax, senior business editor for NPR. She tweets @geewaxnpr.
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