US airline flyers top 1m-a-day pace, a pandemic rarity
US airlines carried an average of more than 1m passengers a day in the past week, the highest non-holiday total since the Covid-19 pandemic began gutting travel demand in the countryalmost a year ago. Sunday’s total of 1.28m was the third highest since travel collapsed in mid-March 2020, according to data reported by the TSA. The airline industry remains severely depressed compared to before the pandemic erupted. Passenger volumes in the past week were 56% below the equivalent week in 2019, the most recent period that wasn’t depressed by the coronavirus, according to the Airlines for America trade group. That number has crept up, but only slowly. <br/>
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US airline flyers top 1m-a-day pace, a pandemic rarity
US airlines carried an average of more than 1m passengers a day in the past week, the highest non-holiday total since the Covid-19 pandemic began gutting travel demand in the countryalmost a year ago. Sunday’s total of 1.28m was the third highest since travel collapsed in mid-March 2020, according to data reported by the TSA. The airline industry remains severely depressed compared to before the pandemic erupted. Passenger volumes in the past week were 56% below the equivalent week in 2019, the most recent period that wasn’t depressed by the coronavirus, according to the Airlines for America trade group. That number has crept up, but only slowly. <br/>
