{"id":28652,"date":"2021-01-05T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=28652"},"modified":"2021-01-05T17:53:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T17:53:40","slug":"us-travel-hits-new-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/us-travel-hits-new-high\/","title":{"rendered":"<US travel hits new high>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US travel hits new high despite December\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was the\u00a0deadliest month<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for COVID deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 1.3 million people passed through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints at U.S. airports on Sunday. While this figure represents 55% of the 2.4 million people TSA screened a year earlier, it was still the highest volume since March 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Air travel spiked around Christmas and New Year despite warnings from health officials to avoid travel to help curb the spread of the virus. December was the\u00a0deadliest month\u00a0in the U.S. for COVID-19 deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Anthony Fauci, a White House advisor and one of the country\u2019s leading infectious disease specialists, has warned about a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/12\/27\/fauci-warns-of-post-christmas-surge-in-covid-infections.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">further increase<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0in Covid-19 infections following the holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Airirline executives have said they expect demand to wane outside of peak holiday periods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vaccines have fueled some optimism about a recovery but the timing of when travelers will return en masse is still unclear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs difficult as 2020 was, in many ways I expect the next 12 months to be even more challenging,\u201d\u00a0Delta Air Lines\u00a0CEO Ed Bastian wrote to employees on New Year\u2019s Day. \u201cJust as we\u2019ve never experienced a global pandemic in our history, we\u2019ve also never had to create and execute a plan for recovery from one. We will be building a new Delta centered on a medical and economic recovery that hasn\u2019t yet taken shape.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elsewhere, American Airlines expects the impact of the\u00a0pandemic\u00a0to continue to weigh on demand and schedules into 2021, the carrier\u2019s president said last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fort Worth, Texas-based airline is flying about 45% of its 2019 schedule this month, Robert Isom told reporters at Miami International Airport, before the debut of the\u00a0Boeing\u00a0737 Max\u2019s\u00a0first U.S. flight with commercial passengers since it was grounded nearly two years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe anticipate that\u2019s something that will carry on into January and February. We are hopeful that the vaccine will show some promise,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In recent weeks, American and its competitors warned investors that a surge in COVID-19 cases and new travel restrictions will\u00a0hurt fourth-quarter revenue, despite the spike in travel around the year-end holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US travel hits new high despite December\u00a0was the\u00a0deadliest month\u00a0for COVID  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":28653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[99,1385,4329,4366],"class_list":["post-28652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-tsa","tag-us-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28656,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28652\/revisions\/28656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}