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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US screened 61 % much less passengers throughout the coronavirus pandemic-marred 12 months 2020 in comparison with the earlier 12 months, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) mentioned in a press launch on Monday.
“Between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020, the company screened a complete of roughly 324 million passengers all through its airport safety checkpoints. That determine represents simply 39 % of the roughly 824 million whole passengers screened in 2019,” the discharge mentioned.
The TSA mentioned journey quantity bottomed on April 14, 2020 when solely 87,500 passengers had been display at safety checkpoints all through the US – a 96 % drop over the earlier 12 months.
Journey quantity rebounded across the time of the main US holidays, together with Thanksgiving and Christmas, it added.
The TSA additionally mentioned it expects passenger visitors to stay beneath the pre-pandemic ranges for many of 2021.
TSA knowledge focuses totally on air passengers and underscores the difficulties felt by the airline business amid the extreme restrictions imposed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Final month, the Worldwide Air Transport Affiliation (IATA) urged European Union nations and the UK to finish quarantine guidelines for airline vacationers, citing a brand new sequence of research displaying restrictions do little to stop contracting the novel coronavirus.