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U.S. airports see decrease in travelers during COVID-19

By Associated Press

April 15, 2020

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A lone passenger makes his way toward a gate in an otherwise nearly empty terminal at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Wednesday, April 15, in SeaTac, Wash. Flights at the usually busy airport have dropped from up to 1,300 a day to about 400 each day.
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A taxi cab waits for a fare, Wednesday, April 15, at a quiet Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va. The District of Columbia metro region is under a stay-home order for all residents in an effort to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
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A lone passenger sits in an otherwise empty food court at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Tuesday, April 14, in Phoenix. The coronavirus outbreak has caused a significant decrease in air travel.
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Empty south security checkpoint at Denver International Airport, Tuesday, April 14, in Denver. The new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms for most people, but for some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness or death.
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Rosemary Arends, a nurse and flight attendant for South African Airways (SAA), right, checks the temperature of a passenger before a charter flight from Miami International Airport to Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, during the new coronavirus pandemic, Tuesday, April 14, in Miami. The repatriation flight was a collaboration between SAA and Workaway International Group. Workaway International recruits young South Africans to work in South Florida to work in the hospitality industry. Due to the pandemic golf resorts and other businesses in the hospitality industry have shut down.
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A worker wears a mask while cleaning luggage carts at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 14.
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An airline passenger walks past a group of Texas Department of Public Safety State Troopers at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, March 31, in Houston. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott expanded his travel restrictions to visitors from three states and four major U.S. cities in an effort to keep the coronavirus pandemic from spreading across Texas.
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Few people are in the departure lobby at Honolulu's Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, March 26, as Hawaii imposed a 14-day traveler quarantine to slow the coronavirus.
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Alfredo Fahardo waits on the Delta ticketing line at the Salt Lake City International Airport, March 25, in Salt Lake City. Many airline flights are nearly empty as virus undercuts travel.
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A LaGuardia Airport security guard stands alone at one of the arriving passenger pick-up areas, March 21, in New York.
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Wheelchair assistant Herbert Stewart stands with an empty chair at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, March 19. A labor union says hundreds of contract workers at Philadelphia International Airport are getting laid off as flight cancellations soar because of the spreading coronavirus.
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A traveler enters the empty maze leading to TSA screening at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, as airlines limit flights due to the virus outbreak, March 17.
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Traveler Angie Hall wears a protective mask as she wipes down her luggage at the bag claim area at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport, March 16, in Atlanta.
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