As social media images of fuller flights spark health concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic -- Democratic lawmakers and unions are calling for federal action to mandate social distancing policies on planes. Why do some flights have a higher number of passengers if air travel is down? The number of U.S
As social media images of fuller flights spark health concerns amid the COVID-19 pandemic -- Democratic lawmakers and unions are calling for federal action to mandate social distancing policies on planes.The number of U.S. travelers screened by the Transportation Security Administration is down over 90% compared to this time last year, but the number of available flights has also been slashed considerably.
"I guess @united is relaxing their social distancing policy these days?" Ethan Weiss tweeted, a cardiologist and assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.MORE: Doctor says cross-country United Airlines flight was scarier than volunteering in COVID-19 hospital ward
"In the long-term, that's a business model that cannot be sustained," Calio said at a Senate hearing last week."Because if we can't -- if it costs more to fly people from point A to point B -- it's a total money-losing proposition which then means it's a job-loss proposition." At the time, the DOT directed ABC News to the Federal Aviation Administration , which responded in a statement that it's"not a public health agency," but that it had been lending its aviation safety expertise to federal public health authorities.
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