u.s. Air travel plummets amid coronavirus shutdown
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by GABRIEL CORTES | April 16, 2020
The airline industry was one of the first sectors to feel the negative economic effects of the coronvirus pandemic spread across the globe, but data published by the Transportation Security Administration show exactly how precipitous the drop in air travel has been.
Since the beginning of March, the number of travelers screened at U.S. airports has plummeted by more than 96%. The graph below illustrates that drop in traffic and contrasts it to the number of screenings TSA agents conducted the year before.
TSA updates these data every day, and the graph will be updated regularly.