Airlines issued billions in credits during the pandemic. Here’s why travelers need to use them ASAP
- Airlines issued billions of dollars’ worth of credits during the pandemic.
- Those credits need to be spent before they expire.
- Experts and frequent travelers say organization is the key to keeping track of what’s available to spend.
In the spring of 2020, Aaron Hurd figured he had a summer of cheap travel in store.
“I was seeing tickets from Minneapolis to the coasts at $80 round trip,” the writer and strategy consultant from Minneapolis told USA TODAY. “I thought: we’re all going to stay home, we’re going to solve this COVID thing. It’ll take a few months and by June of 2020, we’ll all be traveling again. I’m going to book tickets for every weekend from June 2020 through the rest of the year.”