The U.S. Transportation Department said yesterday that U.S. airlines carried 89 percent fewer passengers in May compared with last year, a massive decline that is still better than a historic low in April amid the coronavirus pandemic, Reuters reported. The 20 largest U.S. airlines carried 7.9 million passengers in May down from 74.8 million passengers in May 2019. Still, the airlines carried more than twice as many passengers in May than in April, when passenger traffic fell 96 percent, up from 3 million passengers on all U.S. airlines in April. International U.S. traffic fell 98 percent in May to 182,000 passengers, down from 9.9 million.
