TSA达到了自2020年2月以来的最高检查站
byDaniel McCarthy/
On Sunday, June 26, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screened 2,462,097 passengers, its most passengers since the start of the pandemic.
The number is 13.5% higher than the same day in 2021 (2,167,380) and close to 300% higher than the same day in 2020 (633,810), proving just how much the industry has recovered from the pandemic.
However, the number is still lagging the travel industry’s record in 2019, which saw 2,632,030 people travel through checkpoints on the same day, 6.45% higher than this year.
The news comes as the travel industry prepares for an expected busy summer travel season, with the删除美国入站测试要求combined with high consumer demand, creating a perfect storm.
这些因素加上整个行业的人员配备问题,已经在美国和其他地方引起了一些混乱。
上个月,关于在多伦多的皮尔逊机场(Pearson Airport)的安全性等待的报道,该机场一直持续到6月,这给旅行者带来了混乱。上周末的取消和延误在美国几个机场变得如此糟糕USA Today called it “Travel Armageddon.”美国航空本周表示,由于飞行员短缺,它将结束对爱荷华州,纽约和俄亥俄州的地区机场的一些服务。
Travel industry voices last week in Washington D.C. for ASTA’s Legislative Day spokeabout what is happening at airports and across the sector, and what consumers, and travel advisors, can do to minimize pain ahead of the busy summer travel season.
“We can be incredibly empathetic but there is this idea that the airline industry did receive $56 billion worth of aid,” Virtuoso’s Matthew Upchurch said. “There is some accountability to be had.”
“I’d like to coin a new acronym W-T-H-I-E—where the hell is everyone?” Marc Casto, a senior vice president for Flight Centre U.S. and ASTA chairperson said on Tuesday.
He added that some of the more needed jobs in the industry are the ones that need training, so “it’s going to take quite some time to reconcile that. We can’t grab someone off the street and put them in front of the plane.”