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Spike in coronavirus cases reveal signs of stalling U.S. air travel recovery

Courtney Miller·July 2, 2020

The first signs of a slowing recovery in air traffic are beginning to show in the United States just as airlines make their largest capacity increases. Even as screened passenger numbers from the Transportation Security Administration continue their upward trajectory, so do new cases of COVID-19 in states not first hit by the virus. With that growing uncertainty, the spread is showing its first indications of a slowing recovery in the months ahead.

Surging coronavirus infection rates aren’t slowing U.S. air travel rebound, yet

Courtney Miller·June 24, 2020

For the first time in over three months, the Transportation Security Administration screened over 600,000 passengers. Yet, as optimistic as the almost seven-fold increase in traffic from its lows may be, it still requires context that overall numbers remain down more than 77% from the same point in 2019 and now facing a surge in new U.S. COVID-19 cases.

An ATR 72-600 simulator at the company's training base in Toulouse, France in May 2019.

Airlines stare down simulator logjam once pilot furloughs hit

Courtney Miller·June 8, 2020

The abundance of aircraft parked around the world brings another, very human and more personal abundance - pilots. Without passengers to fly, aircraft will remain parked. With aircraft parked, some pilots find themselves the subject of a furlough. Yet, even as the industry stares down a potential sharp reduction in the overall pilot workforce, the massive change could simultaneously spark a major new wave of retraining that would overwhelm the global simulator infrastructure.