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Memorial Day Air-Travel Boom Highlights Thriving Jet Fuel Demand
Roshni Sharma is one of the many American travelers opting against the traditional road trip this Memorial Day weekend and choosing instead to fly. The 27-year-old nurse from Alexandria, Virginia, typically drives to her parents’ house in Pennsylvania for Memorial Day, but this year she and her husband are flying to Austin, Texas, to visit a long-distance friend. “Driving down to Texas would have easily been a two- to three-day affair one way, and the entire span of our trip is two or three days, so flying is faster,” Sharma said. Choices like Sharma’s are promising to reshape the summer market for refined ... (full story)