Despite all the warnings, the advice to stay home, and the fact that the more we keep flying, the longer this COVID-19 pandemic will last, Americans have continued flying for the holidays. And our pre-Christmas spike in folks flying out to see their loved ones has been rivaling our pre-pandemic numbers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised that people don’t travel for the holidays, instead spending time with the people who have already been in the house with them. If you really must travel, the CDC asked people to consider the impact of doing so, including overwhelming local hospitals and unintentionally bringing the disease to a previously unaffected home.
And yet, the day before Christmas Eve, 1,191,123 people boarded flights in the United States, NBC reports—the most since March, when the pandemic was still in its incipient stages in this country. A similar spike was seen during the Thanksgiving holiday season, but March 16 was the last day over 1.1 million people flew.
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