From The Hill newspaper,
TSA predicts potentially record-breaking holiday travel season.
Wut? How can this be? America has the worst economy in the history of the world. The Hill reports,
Last year, the agency screened nearly 39 million passengers during the two-week holiday season, calling it the agency’s “busiest end of year holiday travel period ever.”
And this year?
TSA said in a press release that it is fully staffed and is ready to screen a projected 44.3 million travelers from Friday, Dec. 19, through Sunday, Jan. 4.
It was just last month,
The latest projections come after TSA screened 3.13 million people on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, a new single-day record.
That’s “record” as in ever, in the history of American aviation going back to the Wright Brothers.
In other words, something like 1 percent of American residents are traveling on commercial airliners on a given day. They aren’t “the” 1 percent, who can afford to fly private. So who are they?
We were told back in April that Trump had destroyed the airline industry with tariffs or something. Yet here we are.
Here’s what I’m struggling with, I search for data, TSA numbers, GDP data, etc., looking for recession. But all I get is anecdotes.
