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Listen to the Consider This podcast from NPR. Hey, good morning. I'm Patricia Murphy. It's Thursday. This is Seattle now. Jumping rope

can be a low-tech way to spend a summer afternoon, but it's also an international sport.

In a minute, we'll hear from a local youth jump rope team who represented the U.S. this summer in Japan.

But first, let's get you caught up.

Seattle's expected to get fewer international visitors this year.

A new forecast from Oxford Economics predicts Seattle will see a 27% drop in overnight international visitors in 2025.

It's the biggest projected drop among U.S. cities with Portland in second place.

The report notes that the steepest fall off has been in

travel from Canada. There's hope that travel will rebound next year as Seattle hosts several

World Cup matches. Airplane deliveries from Boeing are down slightly as the company works to ramp

up production. Boeing says it delivered 48 planes last month. That's down from 60 in June, but on par with monthly deliveries earlier this year.

The July numbers include 37 deliveries of 737 max jets. Federal regulators have capped the number of max planes Boeing can make each month at 38.

That's fallout from last year's door panel fiasco when an Alaska

Airlines jet had a mid-air blowout. Seattle Times reports that Boeing's CEO is planning to ask the

FAA to remove that cap. And a big pain in the butt traffic note for the weekend. All northbound lanes

of I-5 through downtown Seattle will be closed this weekend.

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