Michelle Lopez, 24, sits with her luggage at the airport in Norfolk, Va., on Tuesday Dec. 22, 2020. Lopez flew in from Houston to visit her boyfriend who serves in the U.S. Navy. (AP photo/ Ben Finley)
As people packed the airports during Christmas time, air travel hit all-time highs this week.
On Christmas Eve, the TSA said it screened almost 850,000 people at airports across the U.S., which is a pandemic record for air travel.
A lone traveller passes by a map of the United States while heading to the north security checkpoint in Denver International Airport Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
Although the number of airplane passengers did not compare to pre-pandemic travel numbers, health experts said there is a risk due to the traveling increase.
“Mostly being on the plane, I didn’t know how it could be,” Kaela Vermeule, holiday traveler, stated. “And actually, it was a little too packed for my liking.”
Passengers said the airline they were flying on would not refund their flight, which could be a reason for the packed airports.
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