Airline Passengers Dropped by 60 Percent in 2020
Posted on AllSides February 16th, 2021
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The number of passengers who flew on U.S. airlines in 2020 was about 60% less than the year before, according to data from the Department of Transportation released Tuesday.
Domestic flights saw a 58.7% decline in passengers from 2019, while international flights had 70.4% fewer passengers. April had the largest drop (96.1%) from the year before.
"The large airlines carried 30 million passengers in December 2020 [preliminary], compared to 79 million passengers in December 2019 and up from 3 million in April 2020, which was the lowest monthly total in...
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