I was in the terminal the other day. It looked like Spring Break. All my flights were full. Had to accommodate pilots on the jump seat as well.

 

Thats because banks have been cut in half. If you were in the terminal between banks its a ghost town. Flights are definetly filling up. Problem is we are only flying 40% of our flights.

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TSA number are between 25 and 33 percent. Have been for a long time. That is stalled. What on earth are you looking at??

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Actual passenger counts, which are increasing week-over-week?

 

What are you looking at?? 25-33% every week.

Fake news, please state your source. TsA official website completely disagrees with u.

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No, it actually doesn't.

https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/passenger-throughput

Look at the actual numbers of actual passengers.

9/26-10/2: 5,245,915 weekly pax...749,416 daily average
9/19-9/25: 5,067,589 weekly pax...723,942 daily average
9/12-9/18: 4,850,301 weekly pax...692,900 daily average


4.48% week-over-week passenger growth in the seven day period beginning 9/19, followed by 3.52% week-over-week passenger growth in the seven day period beginning 9/26.

If this is too much of 'the math' for you, look at Tuesday, which are always the lowest travel day, in the month of September:

29 Sept: 568,668
22 Sept: 549,741
15 Sept: 522,383
8 Sept: 704,075 (Labor Day Holiday bump)
1 Sept: 516,068

Year-over-year figure was 25.3% on September 1st (Tuesday), that figure was 30.4% on September 30th (Wednesday).

If you consider 5.1% increase in year-over-year load factors from the beginning to end of September a plateau, I suppose that's your perogative.

 

Here you go math boy. July 25-33%, August 25-33%, September 25-33%(minus holiday) October 25-33%. See a trend here.......

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It will be interesting to compare October TSA#’s. Do we slide backwards after POTUS/FLOTUS and other high profile COVID-19 positives?

 

This explains it. The company has adjusted the schedule and number of banks for the current static demand. Good news is they are adding a few point to point trips as demand signals show the value. They are clearly on the demand signal and ready should we see growth in passenger demand, but they are not going to fly empty planes for any length of time

 

It’s been a steady but slow climb. Check the TSA numbers thread for some recent graphs. It continues to increase.