Originally Posted by Grumpyaviator

The numbers are encouraging, however I think a large driver is ticket prices. At SWA we have had unbelievably low fares driving up sales, as a result seats are full but still losing money. Not to mention the problems that go with Walmart pricing. My last two flights from MDW to las we had to call the cops for “behavioral issues”. I’ve noticed passenger disruptions have been higher than pre-Covid. Also, it seems the airports are a madhouse now compared to before Covid. The food lines are horrendous and there is almost no decorum. My last commute flight some chic was randomly trying to airdrop me pics and videos of herself at the gate. It was like getting porn spammed on the plane. I hate to even think what it’ll be like when we’re at full capacity and prices are still bargain basement.

Originally Posted by Zard

I'll be glad when the trash bag luggage crowd is back to replace the grocery bag luggage crowd.

Originally Posted by 123494

You just made think of something: what is it with so many people traveling in their pajamas?

I don't see how Ugg slippers and SpongeBob pants are acceptable forms of clothing to wear out in the public. I mean, you're getting on an airplane surrounded by a hundred or more people. I do wear oil-stained jeans out all the time, but I would never consider wearing what some of the zoo creatures are flying around with.

Originally Posted by Grumpyaviator

It’s a byproduct of the $30 ticket. What was once “a day in the life” on Spirit has become the new norm everywhere.

Originally Posted by fishforfun

Do you think there is a ceiling until international travel comes back? What will we top out at?

Originally Posted by spirited

3/22/21, Monday, 1.36 MM screened
1,127 K, 13.7% WOW increase
More than 1.3MM since Thursday
Average Daily for the last week 1.34MM

Day 56% YOY 2019, 1wk 56%, 2wk 53%
Thursday-Monday, aka Thurmon, aka my proxy for leisure travel - 58% YOY 2019

Originally Posted by 123494

Noice! Let's keep it up

Originally Posted by rickair7777

Depends entirely on a vaccine now (or some miracle treatment that everyone can keep in their medicine cabinet and pop like aspirin anytime they feel a touch of the Rona coming on).

Otherwise there's no plan and no metric for restoration of normalcy in certain key economic states other than "no deaths"... my guv has essentially stated that one death is too many. No practical way to get there, could literally take decades of partial lockdown to achieve any kind of herd immunity. Or go for total lockdown where anyone leaving their home for for any reason (including food, water, or medical care) is shot on sight, kind of like what they did in wuhan. That would eliminate the bug in a matter of weeks but only in areas where a total lockdown was totally enforced. Chinese citizens are well trained in absolute compliance by decades of gulag therapy, but here you'd have to shoot people.

From a public health management perspective it's basically like telling everyone to stay home because 50,000 annual highway deaths is too much. If traffic deaths start to rise, back to lockdown you go. Rinse, wash, repeat.