US air travel over the weekend of July 4 fell significantly this year from last year, as Americans continue to distrust public transportation amid the current coronavirus pandemic.
Figures released Monday by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) revealed that fewer than 500,000 people crossed TSA security checkpoints on July 4, nearly 2 million fewer than on July 4, 2019. The drop it was even more pronounced on July 5; Only 731,123 people crossed TSA checkpoints that day, compared to 2,795,369 on July 5, 2019.
Throughout the weekend, the average number of travelers passing through checkpoints decreased 73 percent from the holiday weekend last year.
Domestic air travel has rebounded since the coronavirus outbreak began in the spring, but it is still a shadow of pre-pandemic numbers and has forced the industry to cut tens of thousands of jobs.
President Trump
Donald John Trump Trump’s second term plans remain a mystery to the Republican Party Trump to hold an outdoor rally in New Hampshire on Saturday Eighty-eight years of debt mercy MORE He welcomed the news that the industry was beginning to rebound at the White House last month, signaling the rise in airline share prices.
“The airline’s shares soared today and others did too. The whole market went through the roof, “Trump told reporters.
“People travel, and you know what? They travel within the United States, “he added.
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian told Fox Business in June that he believed the worst of the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic had been done, although in recent weeks states like Texas and Arizona have seen a growing number. of new cases.
“I think we have seen the worst. In mid-April, while everyone was under orders to stay home and international restrictions were increasing in terms of travel for all countries in the world, we really were at the bottom, “Bastian said at the time.” So, the optimist in He says we have doubled in the last four to six weeks as we started to reopen our economy, even on the domestic side compared to the international side. “
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