Air Travel Gets Memorial Day Bump to Levels Unseen in Weeks
- Passengers surpass 300,000 for first time since late March
- Wall Street signals worst may be over as flights, fliers grow
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Air travel over the Memorial Day holiday weekend returned to levels not seen since plummeting in March when stay-home orders took effect across most of the U.S.
More than 318,000 people passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints on Thursday followed by 348,673 on Friday, topping 300,000 for the first time since March 23, according to figures from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration.