What the future of air travel could mean for You

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louis on board 23 passengers with 121 empty seats which was relatively crowded compared to other flights these days we watched as only five people boarded this southwest flight to orlando some flights to new orleans have left empty traffic has fallen off the charts it's been pretty eerie you know i mean the passenger count has dropped down about 93 94 percent lambert's airport director says 24 thousand people passed through st louis on a typical day that number is now down to 1 000. recently phyllis king and her grandchildren were among them

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we already had these tickets and because they didn't cancel the flight then just go ahead and use it but judging by the quiet concourses most have opted to cancel data provided by the tsa shows the sharp passenger drop off beginning in march on st patrick's day passenger screenings fell below 1 million nationwide by april 7th the number was below 100 000 with the bottom hitting on april 14th only 87 000 passengers were screened by tsa that day compared with 2.2 million on the same day a year earlier numbers are starting to rise but don't expect a switch to flip it's going to be a slow ramp up though i don't think you're going to see the volumes to what we had been accustomed to the last few years come back overnight or even in the next couple of months at the moment empty planes mean plenty of leg room and no fear of getting stuck in a middle seat one aviation consultant told me that will change sooner than you expect leaving the middle seat open like some people suggest for for social distancing that's 17 inches that's not going to protect you from anything so we've got to fill up the airplanes got to get the middle seat but i would suspect by september

we're going to be back to complaining about crowded airplanes oh you think it's coming that quick it very well could we we were getting picking up things from airlines we're picking up things look people are said enough of this mike boyd runs the boyd group international in denver he believes st louis will be one of the first places to recover and it could lead to some bargain prices at least for a short period of time is it going to be cheap to fly probably for for st louis yell it's hard to tell they're going to try to get people back on airplanes so there will be incentives to do so southwest is going to need to grow very quickly and they're going to go places

where they can expand or they can add traffic back very quickly that's called st louis boyd says our central united states location should help and some of the numbers seem to agree on may 7th we will reach our low point with only 108 daily departures compared to 252 on the same day a year earlier but by june 4th that number is up to 168 daily departures and by july 9th all the way back up to 251 scheduled departures of course we'll have to wait and see if the passenger traffic returns