Into the Future of Flying
Into America
Trymaine Lee, MS NOW
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The last time I flew on an airplane was March 18th. |
| 0:11.3 | I was headed back home to New York City from Cleveland, Ohio, where I was covering the |
| 0:15.1 | state's primary election. |
| 0:17.5 | Coronavirus was just setting in, and the election was postponed. |
| 0:22.2 | It was the start of a national postponement of everything. |
| 0:26.6 | That flight was the loneliest flight I'd ever been on. |
| 0:30.0 | I was one of just three people on the entire plane, and to think I was well on my way to |
| 0:35.8 | Delta's platinum status. |
| 0:38.4 | That too has been postponed. |
| 0:42.0 | The coronavirus has gutted the travel industry. |
| 0:45.1 | US airlines have lost more than 90% of their passengers, and are projected to lose tens |
| 0:51.3 | of billions of dollars in revenue this year. |
| 0:56.6 | Those are astonishing numbers. |
| 0:58.9 | But the desire to travel, that's not going anywhere. |
| 1:03.3 | A survey by a leading travel industry site found, one third of all Americans say they hope |
| 1:08.5 | to travel within three months after restrictions are lifted. |
| 1:12.2 | And as we've seen, restrictions are being lifted. |
| 1:15.6 | States and countries are beginning to reopen. |
| 1:18.6 | And even now, people are traveling. |
| 1:20.6 | I just have my mask, put the filter in it, and then gloves, can't sanitize it, lights |
| 1:27.8 | all wipes. |
| 1:28.8 | Just infected, that I carry with me, let's pull out my pocket, after touching anything |
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