They do that every single fiscal year as the political budget crisis plays out. Plenty of travel gets approved, few mil personnel would even submit requests for frivolous travel anyway, the boss knows that when he sees it. I don't think this will be much different. Given discretion, not too many CO's are going to tie their organization's hands based on vague and non-quantifiable COVID risks.

not saying "directed to take them at a loss"

I am saying most govt tickets are not profit centers for the airlines.

don't we still have to buy refundable tickets? I don't f with dts auths so I really don't know, I just see what hits my gtc and it's usually a lot.

As (when) this pandemic starts to ease, it is very obvious with all the various jurisdictions (cities, counties, states, Feds, etc.) enforcing their own endemic wide variety of restrictions and politicians putting their fingers in the pie, the travel sector rebound is going to be a very disorganized slow paced process. Counting stats on a daily or weekly basis such as TSA’s, as an example, is way off base and presents misleading volatile data for a micro time frame snapshot. Just saying that trying to build short or long term projections off of this type of data on a daily or weekly basis is pointless based on the big picture. Again, check the TSA data quarterly instead over the next 12 months and then you might start to get some useful numbers to correlate against.

thanks for the positive energy.

above 300k for 5/28

Sorry if I burst your balloon. Just blow up another one and you are good to go. ;)

Rhino,

I think we all realize that things aren’t all that great...but having a bit of optimism and a positive outlook does no harm. If you rely all your life decisions in it, sure that’s a problem. But tracking those numbers and making a comment about them is still a lot better than sitting behind the screen and anticipating the one million ways life will come to an end.

Europe is opening come Monday!

I hear ya. Not against optimism. But optimism mixed with a decent dose of reality makes a better mix, to me. I just won't sit in this thread as some others seem to do on a consistent basis and blow smoke up my own or others rear ends. To much BS in all areas has already caused enough harm and mixed reactions overall during this pandemic. Just not playing the wish upon a star routine.

Don't think anyone is painting too rosy of a picture...

How about this.... even something like a TSA chart gives a furloughed guy an indication of how close the aviation sector is to 2019 levels.. It can help a furloughee judge when he/she might be called back.
We're barely out of phase 1 or 2 in just about every State. And holding roughly 12-13%...… Maybe we get to 30-40% by the time lockdowns are really eased. Or 50% by Oct. 1st.. Data gives us a starting point.

Some potentially good news, Vegas properties are seeing a higher demand than anticipated after reopening:

https://twitter.com/bailey_schulz/st...767142400?s=20