The new number is close to Wednesday’s epidemic record when nearly 1.2 million people flew – and represents the third busiest day for U.S. air travel since it landed in Crete in March.
While Saturday’s TSA traffic was only 45% of air traffic after Christmas a year ago, that means a lot more people are still traveling – Dr. Cutter Hunthoney Fauci called it “relative” when talking to Wolf Blitzer last week. Earlier this month, the CDC urged people not to travel.
In the past week, the number of American air travelers has increased by six or six days in a row, pushing closer to one million passengers or more. T.S.A. The numbers show that, since the holiday rush began on December 18, about 9 million people have been shown at TSA checkpoints.
Before Wednesday, the previous epidemic record was set after Thanksgiving on Sunday.
The rise in air travel is raising new fears from health experts that there will be another spike in coronavirus infections, similar to the one reported after Thanksgiving.
U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention The centers urged Americans to stay home to avoid spreading the coronavirus. Similar to the spike reported following previous epidemic air travel records around travel, the rise of air travel among other emerging health professionals in the Kovid-19 infection is creating a new threat.
The increase in travel also comes at a time when officials of several airlines are trying to bring back thousands of workers who were laid off in the fall due to frustrated travel numbers.
Congress’ latest Covid-1 relief bill includes an extension of the airline industry’s payroll support program, which sets aside to 15 billion for more than 326,000 fares. United (UAL) And American Airlines (AL) Employees depreciate in September. The companies say the additional funds are enough to pay those workers by March 31.
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