500M fewer people flew in 2020, TSA says

Published January 4, 2021 4:46pm ET



Air travel in the United States dipped in 2020 to less than half of what it was in 2019, with hundreds of millions of fewer people choosing to fly amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Transportation Security Administration announced Monday that 324 million passengers passed through its airport security checkpoints last year, a 61% decline from the record-high 824 million people it saw the previous year.

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