Can The Aviation Industry Afford To Keep You Safe?
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The aviation industry is wrestling with ways to control the coronavirus and get people back to flying. Airports have seen a 90 percent drop in passengers since mid-March. But as states ease lockdown restrictions, more people are expected to fly. Airports today are starting to make changes in the hopes that passengers will be safer as they fly. Justin Bachman reports on what it looks like to fly during a pandemic, and how air travel may change going forward.
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| 0:32.3 | Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 65 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic. |
| 0:45.2 | Our main story? Airlines and airports are doing whatever they can to assure the public that it's safe to fly. |
| 0:53.3 | But the future of air travel is going to look |
| 0:56.4 | almost unrecognizably different. We followed someone who's still flying to find out what it's |
| 1:03.5 | like on an airliner during a pandemic. First, here's what happened today. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing ahead with a vote on a $3 trillion |
| 1:23.1 | dollar virus relief bill. Despite the fact, it has no chance of ever getting signed into law. |
| 1:30.8 | Lawmakers began considering the package under restrictions that have now become commonplace, |
| 1:37.2 | face covers, and limits on the number of members on the floor at any one time. |
| 1:43.6 | Pelosi is making a bet that key parts of the legislation, like |
| 1:47.3 | aid to states, more payments to individuals, and extending unemployment insurance, will generate |
| 1:53.2 | massive public support. She hopes that will force the White House and the GOP into negotiations on another round of stimulus |
| 2:03.0 | for a hobbled U.S. economy. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has dismissed the |
| 2:10.1 | legislation as a $3 trillion left-wing wish list and said he and the White House have set no date for a new stimulus package. |
| 2:21.7 | As the pandemic shuttered businesses and kept Americans at home, sales at stores and restaurants |
| 2:28.0 | fell around 16% in April, nearly twice as much as it did in March. Both monthly declines broke all previous records. |
| 2:37.0 | A separate report from the Federal Reserve showed industrial production had its steepest drop on record. |
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