While the number of people flying out of US airports this year has matched, and at one point exceeded, 2019 levels, Christmas Eve air travel fell sharply below pre-pandemic levels.
This is more than 800,000 fewer people than the nearly 2.6 million screened in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic.That number is still higher than the 846,520 people the agency screened on Christmas Eve of 2020.of all new cases as of Monday, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In spite of rising coronavirus cases, millions are still flying with the TSA reporting 2.19 million people screened at airports across the country on Thursday, the highest figure since the uptick in holiday travel started a week ago.
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