Airlines' Business Travel Problem | Wendover Productions
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Airlines' Business Travel Problem | Wendover Productions

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 8, 202621 min
  • Business & money

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In 2019, 79,332,046 people passed through TSA checkpoints in the month of July.

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In 2019, 79,332,046 people passed through TSA checkpoints in the month of July. In 2021, 63,118,017 did, representing an 80% demand recovery. This blows away most expert forecasts from 2020, and is a remarkable number considering international travel, and certainly international tourism, is still nearly non-existent.

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In Europe, air travel has recovered to around 70% of 2019 levels. In China, the number of scheduled seats has already surpassed 2019 numbers—they're beyond 100% recovery. So the US, Europe, and China—the world's three largest aviation markets—have experienced

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