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INSIDER

Travel bans and their impact on Aviation

As we go to press at the end of March, TSA checkpoint travel numbers March 2020 and 2019
travel has fallen to dire levels worldwide.
In the U.S. TSA reported on Friday, March
27 that it had handled only 8% of the
passenger traffic that it had handled on the
same day a year ago.
Global business travel has been nearly
eliminated reports the Global Business
Travel Association, with people across the
globe working from home if possible.
With the epicenter of the disease now
concentrated in the U.S. – where deaths
doubled to over 2,000 nationwide within
two days between March 26-28 – the
government was urging people from the tri-
State New York City area to now “refrain
from non-essential domestic travel.”
It took about a month from the first
report of a coronavirus death in the U.S. on
February 29 to the number reaching 1,000
on Thursday, March 26. By Saturday, the
number of reported deaths had doubled to
2,000.
Airports throughout the U.S. and
Canada—as they are worldwide – are
consolidating operations and shutting down
both airside and landside properties. A
glance at any airport website is strewn with G1 – G14. SFO is also consolidating Airport Authority President and CEO Craig
notices that concessions and services are Customs & Border Protection (CBP) to Richmond reported that YVR had already
“temporarily closed”. Standalone bars in a single point of entry for international shut down 11% of its terminals and could
most airports have been closed until further arrivals shrink to 40% and still “get the job done.”
notice. “In the recent days, an average of Passenger traffic was currently 10,000 a
The Miami-Dade Aviation Department less than 12 flights per day have departed day, compared to a norm of 70,000 and the
(MDAD), for example, this week closed from Boarding Area A. By April 1st, important U.S. traffic is forecast to drop to
Concourses E, F and G and relocated international flights at SFO will have nearly zero, he said.
flights by Bahamasair, Frontier and United been reduced by 52%,” said the official This scenario is being repeated across
Airlines among others. It is open for notification. the globe.
essential travel and cargo. In a video announcement, Vancouver
MIA continues to be one of 13 U.S.
airports approved by the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security (DHS) to receive Editor/Publisher: Lois R. Pasternak
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