Originally Posted by
Lewbronski
Southwest pilot here. First, super sorry for those numbers you guys just had laid on you. Sucks. And very sad.
I just posted this in the SWA section, but thought I'd post it here since it was mentioned.
Update to the TSA traveler throughput numbers. Traffic yesterday (Friday) increased by 38.9% vs the previous Friday. Traveler throughput follows a cyclical pattern by day of week with Friday usually being the biggest day of the week (at least since the start of the covid-19 crisis). Yesterday saw 171,563 travelers people processed by TSA. Last Friday, TSA handled 123,464.
What's sort of interesting about the numbers is that the first few days of this week averaged about a 20% increase in travelers over last week. The last two days were right at a 38% increase. Is that the beginning of an acceleration in the trend? Hard to tell with such a small sample size, but fingers crossed.
Here's a visualization of the data since Mar 29. Each line represents one week. The purple line is the current week. The blue line is the week of Mar 29. The yellow line is the low point: the week of April 12.
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It’s a nice trend to see, but demand for forward bookings here is still essentially zero. On the glass half full side of things we’re seeing far more searches of flights for March 2021 (Spring Break) than we did for March 2020 this same time last year. This indicates pent-up demand. On the glass-half empty side these are only searches. They aren’t translating into actual bookings.