Many Airline Flights Nearly Empty as Virus Undercuts Travel

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Many Airline Flights Nearly Empty as Virus Undercuts Travel - NBC 4

Even with sharply reduced schedules, airlines are consolidating some of the remaining flights because passengers aren’t showing up

Airline service in the United States is teetering on the brink of collapse, with near-empty planes and coronavirus outbreaks that have left some air traffic control towers empty.

Even with sharply reduced schedules, airlines are consolidating some of the remaining flights because passengers aren’t showing up.

An official of one major U.S. airline, who asked that they and their airline not be identified, ticked off more than a dozen flights that departed on Tuesday morning with fewer than 10 passengers on board. In a few cases, the passengers were outnumbered by pilots and flight attendants.
 
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