- Air traffic has collapsed over the past month or so in a historic and unprecedented decline due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- The pandemic has wiped out almost all business for air carriers that have resorted to flying what are essentially ghost planes with just a handful of passengers.
- Here’s one account of what passengers can expect for the few of you who are getting on planes right now amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Believe it or not, there are still some people who are getting on planes and flying right now amid the coronavirus pandemic, despite the fact that airports everywhere are virtual ghost towns. A month ago, airlines had started flying nearly-empty planes with just a handful of passengers on them, and the TSA was screening as few as 83,000 passengers a day, down from more than 2 million during the same point in 2019. Further underscoring the unprecedented moment the country is in, all commercial US airlines by May 11 will for the first time require passengers and crew to wear face masks.
Reading all this, though, you might be tempted by a particular thought — if practically no one is flying right now, wouldn’t this actually then be one of the safest times to fly right now? There will probably never be fewer people on planes and in airports than there are right now, so your risk in terms of picking up germs and, god forbid, the coronavirus, is practically nothing right now, right?
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